ABSTRACT
Millions of people depend mainly on women and girls for water supplies which they fetch can by 20-litre can, and pitcher by pitcher every day. Little girls are taught how to balance containers on their heads and to carry them over anything from a mile to six miles of rough ground. They provide not only the small but vital amounts of water needed for drinking and cooking, but the far larger amounts required for laundry, bathing and cleaning. It is chiefly in non- and newly-industrialising countries that people depend for water supplies on the work of females.
