Most rural families in Ethiopia have to walk to fill and carry heavy buckets of water every day.  It is usually the women and girls who do this.  This injures backs.  It prevents girls from going to school, and it keeps women from other tasks on the homestead.  Having to carry water means having limited water.  Therefore, there is less freedom to bathe and wash hands, clothes, linens and dishes.  This results in suffering from bed bugs, fleas and stomach infections.