Each day hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan walk for hours through the the desert to collect drinking water. This water is often polluted and causes sickness, especially in the more devastated South, due to a lack of health care. The result: there is uncontrolled disease throughout the region, caused in many cases by an unsafe water supply. Another consequence of the lack of having safe water available locally is the instability of villages. Every dry season, entire villages migrate with their livestock to find water. Such migration prevents the establishment of schools, health clinics, markets, and a stable social order.

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Each day hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan walk for hours through the the desert to collect drinking water. This water is often polluted and causes sickness, especially in the more devastated South, due to a lack of health care. The result: there is uncontrolled disease throughout the region, caused in many cases by an unsafe water supply. Another consequence of the lack of having safe water available locally is the instability of villages. Every dry season, entire villages migrate with their livestock to find water. Such migration prevents the establishment of schools, health clinics, markets, and a stable social order.
—adapted from Water for South Sudan, Inc.

According to the passage, which of the following is the biggest problem for people in Sudan?
 A. 
the lack of safe water
 B. 
the migration of villages
 C. 
the many diseases
 D. 
the lack of health clinics

GPT-4o mini · Answer

According to the passage, the biggest problem for people in Sudan is A. the lack of safe water. The availability of safe water is directly linked to health issues, migration, and instability in villages, making it the root cause of the other problems mentioned.