WATER. . .
The average water system takes 3 months to build, and supplies water to communities ranging from 10 to 50 families. The most effective type of systems are “gravity-flow,” where water is piped downhill from a spring to a reservoir tank and then directly to each house. This avoids using pumps, which are expensive to fix and often unreliable.
Building a water system relieves the daily burden placed on women and instead of having to walk for an hour to carry 10 litres of muddy water, they can turn on a tap in their back yard and use clean water.
