How Women Are Still Walking Miles for Water and Paying the Price
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How women are still walking miles for water and paying the price
A young girl uses all strength to pump water at a borehole in the northeastern Uganda district of Moroto in Karamoja. In many rural communities around the world, the burden of collecting water often falls on the shoulders and heads of women and girls. COURTESY PHOTO/WELTHUNGERHILFE. Each day spent fetching water steals time, education, and opportunity, highlighting inequalities that persist worldwide NEWS FEATURE | RONALD MUSOKE | In the vast,…
Despite decades of progress, inequalities continue to undermine global water security, which disproportionately affects women and girls, warns of the new United Nations global report on water resources development, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water. Despite their leading role in water collection, women and girls remain excluded from water management and water management, the report deplores the fact that women are responsible for water c…
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