But the women of the village kept going back to the river to fetch water.
When we went down to the river to fetch water, we found a dead Himalayan blue sheep with its hind legs ripped off.
Already we didn't have enough water to farm, and now we have to go to another river to fetch water, one we didn't go to before," says López Ramo.
Jean's convoluted plan to get his family safely to France involved traveling down the entire length of the Amazon to scout the route, returning back up the river to fetch Isabel and their child, and ferrying everyone down to the coast once more -- a journey, as Whitaker notes, of at least 10,000 miles, which Jean started on March 10 , 1749
On his way toward the river to fetch some water, he realized he had nothing to put it in.
The children had to milk cows and fetch river water before school and pray the rosary every night, Gregorio Delgado-Hernández Delgado-Hernándezid, leaving no "time to play".
After decades of war, the pipes in this part of Angola were broken, the reservoir was cracked and there were no generators to power pumps.Not only was the water from the river dangerous to fetch, it was dangerous to drink, too.
BANEY, Equatorial Guinea, 29 February 2008 – The sight of children fetching water at the nearest river with buckets on their heads is a common scene in Baney, a small town situated in the outskirts of Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
Their duties barely advance them above a donkey: childbearing and rearing, working in the fields, fetching water from the crocodile-infested river, sweeping faeces from the straw huts.
Fig. 7 Girls fetching water after digging sediment in river plain at Wagna Dega Nasir of Jidda Woreda.
