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Kokilaben Parmar
India
Think of the hundreds of ways we use water every day. Whether for brushing our teeth, showering, drinking, cooking, or washing fruits and veggies, we use water throughout the day to fulfill of our most basic needs. It's difficult to imagine life without it. And yet, around the world two billion people live without access to clean water.
Collecting water places a particularly heavy burden on girls and women. In Kokilaben's desert village in India, women used to spend long hours fetching water for cooking, cleaning and bathing. The lack of latrines and a water table depleted by agriculture was a threat to sources of drinking water.
With the help of Canadian support, women in Kokilaben's village have joined forces to plan and maintain a new water supply and sanitation system that has vastly improved the health of villagers.
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