Introduction

It is women mainly who draw water for household use, transport it home, and store it. Women are responsible for household chores such as cooking, cleaning, and washing dishes and clothes, bathing children; they are responsible for household hygiene including cleaning toilets, water sources, and babies after defecation; they organise bath water for husbands and train children on sanitation and hygienic behaviour. To perform these tasks, when there are no nearby water sources women have to travel long distances to search for water … and where no clean water sources exist, are exposed to disease from unhygienic sources like drains, ditches or streams including shared sources with animals.