Cleanwaterforum : A forum to discuss how to achieve universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable, clean water.

We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Water scarcity responsible for gender inequality in education

As is well known, young girls are often called upon to fetch water in many countries where piped water is lacking and access to water remote or difficult. All Africa reports that a new sociological study in Uganda has shown that the practice of having girls collect water has impeded that country's efforts to attain gender equality in primary schooling.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200809030345.html
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