Bathore, Albania

Many families who have moved to the suburbs of Tirana, have created illegal dwellings and among many problems they have, an important one is the water supply. Women and children have to walk miles to get some water, to be used for drinking, washing, and showering. Usually they use wheelbarrows but sometimes they just carry it in their hands.


The last 17 years Albania has been suffering from water shortages; many families have water only three times a day which rationizes who takes showers when, when the laundry is to be done and so forth.