City water restrictions hurt our most vulnerable – especially women
- Written by Paul Satur, Research Fellow for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
Australian women have disproportionately been affected in times of drought.Tyler Olson/ShutterstockWhen we think of the difficulties that women have accessing water, we tend to think of women and girls in developing nations struggling to carry water across large distances. We do not usually think of a woman in metropolitan Melbourne, one of the...
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