By Whittney

Growing up in the foothills of Southern Ohio, water never seemed to be a problem–it was everywhere I looked. Our cattle drank straight from the Scioto River, which ran through our back field before it joined the mighty Ohio River ten miles down the road. I was oblivious to any kind of water crisis that might be taking place in the rest of the world, until traveling to West Africa.

Last summer, I joined a group of fellow Ohio State agriculture students and spent more than a month in the Volta Region of Ghana on a service learning … Full Article »