Subject(s): Water supply -- women -- Water sourses -- Women in water management and technology : Women's roles in traditional water management, women in decade 1981-90 -- Importance of an improved water supply : Benefits of better water, reasons for good projects, suitable design, influence of women, involving both women and men -- Options for improved water supply : Technology and gender, water sources- groundwater, spring water, rainwater harvesting, lifting water, transporting water, piped water supply, water purification -- Gender in project cycle : Project identification, gender and personnel, introducing a project, participatory evaluation -- Checklist for planners and evaluators : Gender policy/attitudes, baseline, further preparation, participation and workload, entry points, construction, management, maintenance and actual use, steps towards involvement of particular groups -- Detailed case studies : Improved water supply in Indonesia, participatory development planning in Kenya, handpump maintenance in Sri Lanka, community managed water supply systems in Colombia, lessons learned about gender Malawi, distribution of bleach power by women's groups in India