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Rencontre avec Mittal , une fille indienne

Last week we met Mital . She is Indian ans was a English assistant last year, in our school. We met her virtually to exchange and discuss with her of our project and understand better how waater is used in India.

She was really shocked when she saw for the first time French people drinking from the tap. This is something Indian people won’t do, as the water quality is not excellent and Indian people don’t really trust the local authorities in charge of dealing with water treatment.

Water accessibility is very different from one place to the other in India. Some people don’t have access to a pure and drinkable water home. They need to walk, sometimes for a long distance, to get water, they will carry pots and buckets up to their home.

Mital has water at her place, but uses filters and even sometimes boilers to make sure viruses are all dead. A very different situation from one country to the other !

Pupils from the seconde 5 – Lycée Blaise Pascal