She travels approximately one to eight kilometres every day to fetch her share of water, and her body aches from carrying six to seven buckets of water daily for domestic needs. Even her pregnancy did not put an end to her ordeal since water is not a commodity one can live without.
This is not just Hazoora’s plight, but the plight of thousands of women living in this dry and barren land where fetching water for domestic needs is seen as the responsibility of women only.
This is not difficult to believe in light of the fact that they regularly lift 10 to 15 litres of water from the depth of approximately 40 feet.
Fetching water is a complicated task, but a greater complication is that water cannot be fetched where it is not available.
Providing water to the people of Pakistan is the responsibility of the government, but unfortunately, ours has failed miserably in that area.
The H2o wheel helps the women transport water easily, as they just have to drag the barrel back and forth instead of carrying it on their heads or back. Such projects will eventually bring about a marked improvement to the lives of the struggling locals, particularly the women who bear the brunt of water scarcity.
The suffering of the people as they struggle to find water is so gut-wrenching that a brief visit of this area will haunt you for days.