Napoga Gurigo is a 12-year-old girl in Ghana, Africa. It is 1 for her family to get clean water. The nearest place to get water is a dirty hole half a kilometer from their 2 .
Every morning, Napoga 3 home at half past five to get water for her family. Sometimes it 4 six hours to get enough clean water. Napoga has no time to go to school 5 play with her friends. Millions of people in the world are like Napoga. They can't get enough clean water to6 healthy. Most of those people are in Africa. Water covers 70 percent of the Earth's surface (表面). But most of that is sea water. We can't use it for 7 or cooking. Fresh water is what we use to drink, take 8 and cook food. But fresh water 9 only 1 percent (百分比) of the Earth's surface.
Many people have made wells (#) to get clean water from under the surface of the ground 10 there still isn't enough. Scientists say that in 30 years, more than half of the people in the world won't have enough clean water.
