Going door-to-door in Cameroon to save water
16 March 2019 |
11:28 am
Water is often wasted unnecessarily. Two men in Yaounde, Cameroon were inspired to start a group that goes door-to-door raising awareness about how water is used — and wasted — in private households.
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