Every morning, the inhabitants of the Democratic Republic of Congo struggle to find drinking water. However, the country has the Congo River, the second most powerful river in the world, with a flow rate of over 40,000 m3/s. At the same time, the courageous inhabitants have created a trading system that consists in going down the mountains to fetch water in water wells run by some NGOs. This trade aims to sell water cans to other inhabitants who cannot travel long distances and lift heavy weights so that the money they earn from this trade will allow them to cover their daily expenses.
—John DeWitt Makengo