Like this 4 year old girl in Ghana who walks 6 miles a day to fetch water.

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Many walk several kilometers from their homes in dusty villages each day to scrounge for firewood and to fetch water.

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In many unserved rural areas, people still fetch water for drinking and mix it with infant formula to feed their babies.

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That will mean girls will spend longer walking to fetch water which could encourage them to drop out of school and bear children earlier.

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"We often walk several kilometers without even getting to a small stream from which we can fetch drinking water, " says Mpoup.

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My mother leaned against the arm of a vinyl reclining chair and said she was thirsty, so I went to the nurses' station to fetch her some water.

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Fetch: area of water where waves are generated by the wind.

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