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One Struggle
Shalini Kantayya
United StatesGALLERYCONVERSATION
“in most developing countries women are responsible for water management at the domestic and community level.”
As I became aware of the mounting global water crisis, I realized that it represented a clash of cultures—between a culture that values water as a shared sacred resource and a corporate culture that regards water as a commodity to be bought and sold.
Water is rapidly becoming the oil of the 21st century, and women are likely to be the most impacted. A UNIFEM report states that “in most developing countries women are responsible for water management at the domestic and community level. It was also estimated that women and girls use more than eight hours a day traveling from ten to fifteen km. to transport between twenty and fifteen liters of water in each trip”.
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