After record flooding submerged Bor in South Sudan in 2020, the emergency response ended up turning it into a beacon of climate crisis adaptation The three friends fill yellow jerrycans and help each other lift them on to their heads for the short walk home. Nyandong Chang lives five minutes from the water kiosk and is here up to six times a day. Its still hard work, she says, but at least nowadays water is available and clean. Until last year, women and children in Bor, the capital of South Sudans Jonglei state, faced a much tougher chore going all the way to the filthy stretch of the White Nile that runs near the town to draw the familys drinking, washing and cooking water and carry it back.
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