Imagine waking up every morning, not to check your phone or make coffee, but to begin a four-hour round trip on foot just to bring home drinking water. This was the life of women in the Aït Baâmrane region of Morocco, a strip of villages on the edge of the desert in the south-west of the country. Each woman carried nearly 50 pounds of water balanced on her head. Girls missed school to help. The walk laid the foundation for days.
It didn’t need to be a headline to be a crisis. It just had to be a life.
