Kenya’s Water Women
Source:
Aljazeera
Across the world, almost 1.2bn people live in areas where water is physically scarce and this has an enormous impact on the quality of life.
Without clean water, communities suffer from recurrent diarrhoea and other debilitating or fatal diseases which, together with the time spent going to collect it, means a significant amount of time for education and employment is lost.
Collectively, women in 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa spend at least 16 million hours each day collecting drinking water.
So, how could things be different?
In this film we head to the western Kenyan town of