Ankilibevahavola, Madagascar — Every morning, residents of this village in southern Madagascar's Amboasary Sud district set off on an eight-hour round-trip journey to collect water from the nearest river.
Along the thirsty way, some give up and instead use plastic jerry cans to scoop up whatever they can find in potholes along the road - muddy liquid that aid workers jokingly call "chocolate water".
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