Gender and Water: The Case Study of Africa

‘ Women are intrinsically involved and effected by water’ - Lakshmi Puri, 2012 (Deputy executive director of UN women) Hi welcome to my blog ‘Gender and Water: The Case Study of Africa’. This quotation above, expressed by Puri at the closing convention of World Water Week in Stockholm, concisely encompasses what I will be exploring within the blogging series- women and their intrinsic relationship with water. In this opening post, I will explain my motivations for examining this gendered water relationship. I will then examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to this and contextualise the gender-water relationship. Why Gender? This stems from my passion for social equality and inclusion. Gender equality is a ‘ fundamental human right ’, yet this discrepancy still exists.   I am a firm believer in the fact that the most effective socioeconomic development can be heavily influenced by gender equality. This is because, half the world’s population is girls accounti