Is building water purification plants in Congo, a good or bad thing? Should it be a priority, secondary, or tertiary issue?
Since less than half of Congolese population has access to safe drinking, there is no one solution or "silver bullet" to alleviate the water crisis in Congo.
Overall, it's good thing. But there are so many other things needed to be done. Most importantly, a water purification plant is not help the rural community. In the rural community, 7 out of 10 Congolese do not have access to safe water.
Here's my verbal response.
via/from www.koreaherald.com
President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday arrived in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for summit talks with his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila, marking the first visit by a Korean president to the central African country.
Lee made the trip in return for Kabila’s Seoul visit in March, last year. The two nations established diplomatic ties in 1963.
During summit talks with Kabila Thursday afternoon in Kinshasa time, Lee discussed the development of energy resources, infrastructure construction, development aid and agricultural cooperation.
The two leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation to build water purification plants, seaports and to develop mineral resources such as copper, and to make joint efforts to reconstruct the war-torn African nation by combining Korea’s technologies and Congo’s natural resources.
