Why do the women fetch the water?
The reputation of a woman rests on hard work. If boys older than seven or eight fetch water, people gossip that the woman is lazy.
What that time could be used for instead...
The time that millions of women and children spend hauling water could be used to grow more food, raise more animals, and even start businesses. Girls would be freed from water slavery which would allow them to go to school and choose a better life.
To this end, NGOs are working to bring clean water to forgotten places, using technology, like a sand dam to capture rainwater in Ethiopia.
To learn more about sand dams, check out the video using the link below.
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=4&video_id=231
Lynn Johnson, National Geographic Magazine
Kenya 2009
Tribal Gabra women in northern Kenya may need five hours a day to lug jerry cans laden with murky water across the desert.
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