Tap Water's Benefits Hard To Swallow

In this piece, similarities and differences between two authors’ point of view on the topic of safe drinking water will be analyzed. The two texts, both provide information about water pollution. The authors of For the World’s Poor, Drinking Water Can Kill and After Pollution in Flint, Some Find Tap Water’s Benefits Hard to Swallow, however similar and different point of view about the topic clean drinking water.

In both pieces, they have an issue caused by something, so in both text they have a cause and effect on them. First, they both are in poor countries and came from poor countries. Lastly, both of the pieces has a proposed solution.

In For the World’s Poor, Drinking Water Can Kill people are drinking non-potable water that causes

billions of illness and millions death to children under 5. People in poor countries are trying to dig a well system as a solution so they can get ground water, which is potable. Therefore, people in poor countries can’t afford well systems because for well systems, it’s expensive for them. This problem is happening in poor countries that can’t afford clean water to drink.
In After Pollution in Flint, Some Find Tap Water’s Benefits Hard to Swallow, Latino people aren’t drinking potable water. Latino people are drinking sugary drinks instead of fresh tap water, which is giving them cavities and making them gaining weight which causes obesity. Next, if they don’t drink the tap water, they won’t get the fluoride they need for their teeth. 30,000 children have untreated cavities, that’s how you can tell that they been drinking a lot of sugary drink. The reason they aren’t drinking the tap water is because they heard about lead pipes causing the water to be polluted, they heard about Flint’s water pollution because of the lead pipes, and their home country only drink sugary drinks because their water was polluted. Lastly, trusted adults are trying to convince Latinos to drinking tap water. Other Latinos drink their tap water with fruit slices in them to give it some flavors.
To sum it up, there is a HUGE different point of view from the authors about water pollution in other countries. There are many similarities and differences about water pollution problems. These are all my similarities and differences about water pollution.