Villages in Uganda have access to surface water sources, however they often must walk several miles each way, daily. Additionally, this water is unclean and creates vast amounts of sickness if they do not boil the microorganisms out of the natural and sometimes polluted water sources.

Question

If the villages had funding, they could build wells to the cleaner water located in the aquifers beneath them. What kind of Water Scarcity are these villages experiencing?
a

Physical Water Scarcity
b

Economic Water Scarcity
c

Unknown Water Scarcity

Answer 1

a) Physical Water Scarcity