Ethnè Davey, the Chairperson of the Gender and Water Alliance, maintains that there no natural reason why women should fetch water while men get educated as water engineers. Since 2000, the Gender and Water Alliance has challenged gender assumptions to ensure that the voices of poor women, children and men are heard in the planning and implementation of water management policies and systems. With 80% of its membership hailing from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, the organization actively educates community members and policy-members about how gender can reinforce age, ethnic, socioeconomic and other power differences, and the need to take these dynamics into account when designing water policy. Photo credit: Gender and Water Alliance
