Women and water
“Women in sub-Saharan Africa spend 40 billion hours per year collecting water, equivalent to a year’s labour of the entire workforce of France.” EarthScan 2005
A key role of a Tanzanian woman is to fetch water for her family. This is often an arduous and thankless task; as clean water sources become scarcer, what was once a sociable and even joyous occasion, has turned into a difficult and time consuming chore, with negative implications for their health and energy.
Judith Kobo, Kiegea Village, Morogoro region
“Water is a big problem. I used to get water from a stream two minutes from the house, but now I have to go up the mountain, which is far away, or to a the pump where there are long queues. People often leave the house at 4am to collect water and only return at midday, when they need to feed their children and work on their farms. This makes life hard.”
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