Ruhiira, Uganda
Access to clean water represents a daily struggle to many of the world’s poor. In western Uganda, women spend hours each day to fetch water descending steep hills from their homes to get water from a natural stream source.
The amount of water required for cooking and not the quantity of food available is often the determining factor to how much a family can eat.
Protected streams provide an important means of improving water quality by reducing contamination at the water collection point.