How can women control water?
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Women and men with better access to water have lower levels of undernourishment, especially where they depend on local agriculture for food and income for an active and healthy life. Despite their essential contributions to rural economy at subsistence and commercial levels, women face severe constraints to raise production and productivity, due to limited access to water resources, agricultural services, markets, employment, decision-making in management systems and resources allocation for dom estic and productive purposes. Rural women and girls spend daily 152 million hours collecting water for domestic use. Their multiple tasks limit their participation in food security and agricultural activities, local governance structures and training. Possible actions to incorporate gender perspectives in the global water agenda are: introduce innovative technologies, create an enabling environment towards gender equality, support their legal empowerment, strengthen governance structures, colle ct sex-disaggregated data, invest in infrastructure development, and networking, advocating for women’s involvement at all levels.