Water

Imagine living in a village in Pakistan and getting water—for drinking, bathing, and washing clothes — from a stagnant rainwater pond, or a muddy irrigation and drainage canal contaminated with pesticides. This is what villagers in rural Punjab faced every day.

But what a difference clean water has made to the lives of the beneficiaries of the Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project, especially the women and children, whose job it was to fetch water each day for the family’s needs.

This documentary film tells the story of how an ADB project provided safe drinking water and drainage facilities to about 800,000 people in Punjab through simple, low-cost community-based schemes.

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