The first thing I noticed was not the thirst. It was the silence. In rural Ghana's Bono Region, women and children rise before dawn, carrying empty yellow "Kuffuor gallons" toward streams shared with wandering goats — brown after rain, muddy pools in the dry season. Yet this was the water families drank. When clean water finally flowed, one woman put it best: "This water has given us back our time. Now we can think about tomorrow instead of only today." A story of how water r