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Down To Earth
|July 01, 2023
Access to water in households helps women save time to earn additional income and improve their quality of life RUBY SARKAR
ANITA CHAUDHARY, a resident of Garhmau village in Madhya Pradesh, is one of the 56 women felicitated by the Union government in March this year for her efforts to improve the water situation in her area. As head of Garhmau's water and sanitation committee since 2020, she has been monitoring supply of water to households in the village in Mohkhed tehsil, Chhindwara district, and sensitising other residents on conservation.
This story is from the July 01, 2023 edition of Down To Earth.
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