Women, Water, and 10,000 Miles

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It is the most basic requirement of human survival: clean drinking water. Yet about 1 billion people do not have access to it. 80 percent live in sub-Saharan Africa and eastern and southern Asia. About 4,500 children die every day because they have no clean drinking water. This is the story of the women who live in the most arid part of Rajasthan, India, where the annual rainfall varies from 4 to 16 inches—and the entire rainfall of the year may fall on a single day. In India, water management is solely a woman's occupation. From the time girls are able to walk, they learn that it is their job to find and get water for the entire household. In a woman's lifetime, she will have walked more than 10,000 miles to get water.