Perhaps, like droughts or floods, illnesses can teach us to appreciate water

"Women and girls in many regions in the Global South are typically responsible for collecting water, which becomes a lot more taxing during droughts, and in Europe, women are more likely than men to live in flood zones, where the impact of climate change is felt most severely."

~ by Jamie L. Gloor, Eugenia Bajet Mestre, Corinne Post, and Winfried Ruigrok

"We Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Fighting for Gender Equity"

https://hbr.org/2022/07/we-cant-fight-climate-change-without-fighting-for-gender-equity