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In Pakistan, sanitation and water access improves quality of life

Allah Wasai (c.) collects water with a hand pump installed by the nonprofit Alkhidmat Foundation, outside Peshawar, Pakistan, in July 2016.

In Pakistan, lack of access to sanitary facilities and clean water can hinder even the simplest of daily tasks. In particular, low-income women say they often run the risk of being sexually harassed when fetching water or when they are forced to openly defecate.

For Allah Wasai, a woman living in a makeshift settlement of tents in the southern area of the city of Peshawar, harassment was a daily occurrence when she did

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