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Women and Water

A PR Campaign for charity:water Colleen Paxton W&L Water Resources. Women and Water. The Issues, Stories, and Campaign for Developing Countries. Why Women C arry W ater. Socio-anthropological evidence Women are not considered equals, “ thought they lived only for others ” (Devasia)

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Women and Water

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  1. A PR Campaign for charity:water Colleen Paxton W&L Water Resources Women and Water The Issues, Stories, and Campaign for Developing Countries

  2. Why Women Carry Water • Socio-anthropological evidence • Women are not considered equals, “thought they lived only for others” (Devasia) • WID: Women in Development theory (Ray) • Spend about 4 hours a day carrying water, 30% of daily energy intake (Ray) http://www.charitywater.org/projects/fromthefield/india.php

  3. Biological Contamination • 400 deaths of children below age 5 every hour (Gadgil) • About half of the developing world’s population is suffering from 1 of 6 main waterborne diseases at any time (Gadgil) • Rainy season in India washes more fecal matter into water supply, outbreak of diseases http://www.charitywater.org/projects/fromthefield/india.php

  4. Case study: Maharashtra, India • Mahila mandals (women’s groups) worked with local government • Repaired tube-wells, sanitation education, rainwater harvesting • “participatory research”- women began to understand how they could positively impact their community http://www.barli.org/News-Print/wed-2008-print.html

  5. charity:water • Go to www.mycharitywater.org/wluwater • Just $20 can bring clean water to one person • “I have time to eat, my children can go to school. And I can even work in my garden, take a shower and then come back for more water if I want! I am bathing so well...Now I am beautiful”- Helen Apio, Ugandan charity:water recipient http://www.charitywater.org/projects/fromthefield/images/uganda_helen.jpg

  6. Works Cited • Devasia, Leelamma. "Safe Drinking Water And Its Acquisition: Rural Women's Participation In Water Management In Maharashtra, India." International Journal Of Water Resources Development 14.4 (1998): 537-546. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. • Gadgil, Ashok. “Drinking Water in Developing Countries.”Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Vol. 23: 253 -286. (Volume publication date November 1998). Web. 13 Mar. 2012. • Haggart, Kelly. "Giving Women A Voice On Water." Women & Environments International Magazine 82/83 (2010): 22-23. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 Mar. 2012. • Ray, Isha. “Women, Water, and Development.”Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 32: 421-449 (Volume publication date November 2007). Web. 13 Mar. 2012. • Straw, Becky. "Will the beautiful women of the world please stand up." Charity:water, July 2009. Web. 21 Mar. 2012. <http://www.charitywater.org/projects/fromthefield/uganda.php>. • Warshall, Peter. “With Respect To Water.”Whole Earth Review 85 (1995): 14-17. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 Mar. 2012.

  7. Photo Credits • http://www.charitywater.org/projects/fromthefield/india.php • http://www.barli.org/News-Print/wed-2008-print.html • http://www.charitywater.org/projects/fromthefield/images/uganda_helen.jpg

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