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A Long Walk For Water

A Long Walk For Water

by The Daily Eye Team March 9 2016, 12:59 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secs

Members of 82.2% rural households in Chhattisgarh walk almost 500m a day to fetch drinking water, which means they cover a distance equivalent to that between Gurgaon and Agra in a year. Members of 93 out of every 1,000 households in rural areas have to walk 200m to 500m/day to reach their water source. 20 minutes a day (10 hours a month) spent on fetching drinking water means loss of a days wage or working hours for rural people. The corresponding figure for urban people is 7.5 hours a month.

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