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  • Two sisters carrying heavy baskets filled with leaves back to their remote, mountain home, Himalpani, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Nepal
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  • Once a day a large bowser delivers the district's only source of clean water. Women fill large plastic drums with water, which they will carry back to their homes. The water will provide all their families' water for cooking, cleaning and sanitation, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Muna Thapa collects water from a ground source water pump outside her village home. This water has not been treated and whilst it can be used for irrigtaion, it may not be safe to drink. However, it does provide a source of water that Muna can put into the biosand filter.
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  • Dhanamumi Murmi mixes the cement that she will use to construct the biosand filters. The materials required for the construction of the filters are readily available, inexpensive but very resilient.
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  • A Sherpa porter carrying a basket of live chickens along a stony path towards guesthouses on the Annapurna Base Camp trekking route, Kimche, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Nepal
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  • Once a day a large bowser delivers the district's only source of clean water. Women fill large plastic drums with water, which they will carry back to their homes. The water will provide all their families' water for cooking, cleaning and sanitation, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • A woman emptying, sorting, crushing and removing the labels from plastic water and soda drink bottles before organising them for recycling, Tangra slum, Dhipi, Kolkata, India
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  • Whilst many of us take it for granted that clean, uncontaminated water will pour out of our taps, it's not something that Radhika could be sure of without her family's biosand filter.
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  • Muna Thapa carries a bucket of water across a rice paddy near her home. Water from the ground source can be used for irrigation, for livestock and to replenish the supply in the family's biosand filter.
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  • Removed from their moulds and freshly painted, the biosand filters and sacks of sand and gravel are loaded onto a trailer, ready for delivery and installation.
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  • Lukhi Ram, an employee at the biosand water filter factory, is preparing the containers which will sit in the top of the biosand filters. Water can be collected from any source and poured into the orange containers, from where gravity will pull it down through several layers, killing 99% of bacteria inthe process.
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  • Factory workers, Dhanamumi Murmi and Anjan Dahal ,maintain one of the basic moulds, from which biosand filters are constructed. They are two of only half a dozen employees who run the factory and are responsible for building all the biosand water filters for the local area.
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  • Radhika's kitchen is simple but effective. A gas hob, a few spices and clean water, courtesy of the CAWST biosand filter.
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  • Radhika tops up the container at the top of the biosand filter.
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  • Muna Thapa fills the biosand filter with water collected from a ground source pump. Gravity will draw the water through a biological layer, then through layers of sand and gravel, removing 99% of bacteria in the process.
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  • A woman pumping water from a standpipe in the street outside her home, Jote, Shibrampur, Kolkata, India
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  • 25 year-old Sapana Balami working as a labourer, carrying building materials, with her four year-old daughter, Aanchal Balami, Okharpauwa, Nuwakot District, Nepal
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