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Inter Press Service: As the weeklong international conference on water concluded Friday, it was left to one of the keynote speakers from the United Nations to focus on a much neglected perspective on water and food security: the role of women. Lakshmi Puri, deputy executive director of U.N. Women, told delegates that development can be neither sustainable nor inclusive if it does not free women and girls from "carrying heavy buckets of water every day". In Sub-Saharan Africa, 71 percent of the burden of collecting......
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Women Spend 40 Billion Hours Per Day Collecting Water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 31st, 2012
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