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Collection	Volunteer Photos
Photo Title	Waiting for water
Photo Description	A village on the west coast of Madagascar. It’s July 7th, 2011. It’s a Friday, around 10:30am. Not a time when there is usually a lot of people at the fountain, and yet, the dry season has started, but there should still be water. Once again, there must be a problem with the filter or the pipes. A man from the village will have to go and fix whatever the problem is. In the meanwhile, there is only one fountain out of five working, for a village counting a little over 2,000 inhabitants. It would probably take me around 2 hours, in 2 or 3 passages, to fetch the 40 to 60 liters of water I need for the day. With the dry season and the water running low, thus a smaller flow, thus the wait, one is only allowed to fetch 2 buckets of 15 liters maximum at a time or one Jerican of 20 liters. At this rate, I prefer walking to one of the streams, even if the water isn’t as clean. It only takes me a little over one hour, at the most, to fetch my 60 liters of water.
Contributor	Sophie Zimmermann
Region	Africa Region
Country of Service	Madagascar
Service Dates (Beginning)	2011
Service Dates (Ending)	2013
Sector	Environment
Decade	2000s
Keywords	Children Environment Water and sanitation
Resource Type	Photo
Format	JPG
Date created	2011-09-09

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