Extending and sustaining water has remained to be a challenge. Health complications and even death have risen from sanitation and hygiene problems in Africa in general. Central Africa particularly needs urgent attention with the highest under-five mortality rate. Population growth, rural-urban migration, economic poverty all contribute to the water crisis in the region.
E.W. Scripture is the early pioneer in sport psychology that took a more scientific, data based approach to psychology, seeing sport as an excellent way to demonstrate the value of this "new scientific psychology" and to investigate character development in sport.