Fetching water

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Many homes in Ghana do not have running water. Families must fetch water from community water tanks. These buckets of water are used for washing clothes, bathing, cleaning, dishes, and flushing the toilet. Since fetching water is such a strenuous chore, Ghana has made me a pro at conserving water. Side note: where I reside in Cape Coast I am lucky to have running water 60% of the time. 



Here is a community water tank in Ejisu. It cost my friend and I 40 pesewas (less than 20 cents) to fill three buckets. The woman in the picture here is filling her bucket at one of the higher faucets, for when she is finished she will carry it on her head. 


Here I am, making it look easy. 


But it's not easy! I am glad I don't have to this all the time. Respect to those throughout the world who do. 

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