The Invisible Tax: How Water Scarcity Is Stealing Time, Health, and Futures From African Women and Girls

In nearly 80% of households across sub-Saharan Africa without piped water, the work of collecting water falls to women and girls. Not because they chose it. Because it was assigned to them — by social norms, household hierarchies, and a water infrastructure deficit that has never been adequately addressed. Before school. Before breakfast. Sometimes before […]