This is the modern world...

More than 4.4 million people in Nepal do not have regular access to safe drinking water in rural and urban areas, be it via piped water, wells, rainwater or bottled water.

More than 10,500 children die before their fifth birthday from diarrhoea, mainly due to inadequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, according to WaterAid. More than 80 percent of diseases are the result of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation. (Source Water Aid).

This photograph is my kitchen. The 20 litre plastic bottle in the foreground contains 'almost drinkable' water that is piped in to where I live twice a week, to a communal tap. I boil the water on a rolling boil for 3 minutes, before filtering it through the silver contraption behind.

I'm lucky, I live in a town and the municipality does have a water infrastructure of sorts.

This is the 21st Century!!

Rant over!