Paula Kantor - AgWISE: A Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Perspective [34:21-36:09]

So our third. Our third is that we water insecurity is only the physical problems but for us it is much more than this. So our response and constantly describe that what are the security as something that they live with daily which affect them mentally. Which they expressed as which they locally say that Pani Juno costo which is that separate for water or panithic costos separate from water. So so our request that also shows that emotional consequences of anxiety anger happiness and sleep disorder has meant for the culture of water. And you know this emotional buttons are not occasional. They are very much continuous and deploy about it. So more than 90% of men and women speak about the constant worry about the water so they describe the water and lady find that it would come whether it do not. Whether it will be enough water in the canal or how long it will stay or it will be enough for them to harvest their crop. So respond and explain that the people explain that enter community depend on pretty limited and uncertain water source of the canals for example canals and poems and they share water from the canals and what for the household and birthday board. And and the thing is in the study area. Reefed among is the main crop and very few can produce in the dry season that is depending on the kind of waters and this and the photo in the right you can see this is taken from the study area and this is in a in a dry period. So you can see the extent of scarcity of canals where the water is completely there is no single rubber water.