Jul 17, 2026 • 2 min read

Village Committee Solves Water Problem

The Village Committee took ownership of solving their water problem using the problem solving steps they were taught.

Water is the biggest and main issue in Sindh Province. In many areas, there is no hand pump or water access. Communities normally travel far to bring water for their families. Culturally, women and girls are responsible for collecting water for daily household needs, usually covering long distances every day to fetch water. Typically, these trips lead to insufficient water even to meet basic needs. Most of the time, water available at the source remains or becomes polluted in the process of transport. Even if a source is close to the house, there are often long lines to struggle with.

Aqsaa* is a 40- year-old woman, living in our village of Sanghar, and is part of the Transformational Community Development (TCD) Committee in our village. We were struggling with different challenges in our village. One of the biggest issues in our village was clean drinking water. She said, “There was no water access near my village, so every day I brought water for my family from the village handpump, which is one kilometer from my home. Sometimes I was not able to bring water in the evening and my family was without water. Our whole village was struggling with this situation. I remember one night, when my family was without water, and we were waiting for morning to bring water from that village pump. But our struggles were not very solvable unless we could understand the problem. I remember when we started taking the lessons of TCD training in our village, one lesson which helped us to understand our struggles and problems was Community Ownership. We learned through this lesson how to solve our problems. Since that day, we have started thinking and planning on the water issue and with the help of the TCD training Team we have solved this issue. Thank God now we have access to water at our doorstep and we do not have a shortage of water. We have a well in our village, and we don’t need to wait to drink water.”