How women can help solve clean water access problem at grassroots

Women and children collect water for domestic use from a truck belonging to a road construction company at Awasi on the Kisumu-Kericho highway.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

As Kenya and other African nations tackle water security challenges, one critical insight is emerging: women are not just victims of water scarcity, they are key to its solution.

In many communities, women and girls bear the heaviest burden of the global water crisis, spending an estimated 250 million hours each day collecting water for their households, according to Unicef, translating to several hours per woman per day.

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