When women spend hours fetching unclean water, their entire family is impacted. It is not uncommon for women to leave their homes hours before sunrise to start their walk to a water source, several kilometers away, and often over treacherous terrain. Once at the water source, women may wait hours for enough water to be available, often competing with other women and creating tension between families. The entire journey can take several hours, and usually happens 2 - 3 times per day. Sometimes other family members must step in to assist. It is an exhausting, time-consuming, and disempowering daily burden for families. A traditional water source can be a river, a stream, or simply an area with hand-dug shallow wells (as shown here).  But these water sources are not clean and may be contaminated by animal & human waste, chemicals, bacteria, and viruses. Contaminated water can make the entire family sick with water-borne diseases, like diarrhea or cholera.  This can end up creating ...