It is not a man's job to fetch water.

Less than 20% of Seats in national parliaments are held by women. 

Cartoon based on an idea contributed by B. Mommen, UNICEF (WSP, 2012)

It is not a man's job to fetch water. This image illustrates how women are occupied taking part in the daily tasks of fetching water, which reinforces these notions of gendered divisions of labour in relation to water and gendered identities in relation to water management.

It is clear that you need equal participants from all different community members and a diverse range of policy makers for effective management implementation.

Take the example of the Macina Wells project in Mali:

The reason for the failure of this project was that women, who were the ones responsible for collecting water were not included in planning and they were blind to differences in gender. Therefore the equipment provided ended up being impractical for the women to use, and they ended up reverting to their own original methods for collecting water. In addition, another reason for their failure was that they didn't fulfil their management duties, because they "regarded water and sanitation as a women's business" (Parr, 2014:69).

Take another example, the water project in the Tanga region in Tanzania:

Women were not present in the planning for three reasons: 1) The meetings were held at a time that was impractical for the women to attend. 2) They were reluctant to attend because they felt the men would not take their suggestions into consideration. 3) They were not fully informed about the meetings. (Parr, 2014: 70)

Therefore this picture paints an accurate image of the general stereotypical and ignorant attitudes towards water management.