On 18 September 2015, pastoral women queued for water at a traditional deep-well source in Garba Tulla, Kenya. A photograph published by the International Livestock Research Institute shows livestock drinking beside them. People and animals gathered at the same water point, while the women maintained an order for filling their own containers.
The record does not provide a waiting time, headcount, well depth, or detailed lifting method, so those elements should not be invented. It does clearly identify the date, place, photographer Fiona Flintan, and the fact that pastoral women were queuing for water.
At a pastoral water source, household and livestock needs do not appear in separate landscapes. The image's distinctive detail is that animals drink beside the human queue. The well is a point where domestic life, labour, and animal survival converge, and the women's ordered wait quietly records that intersection.
Quality check: ILRI’s photographic catalogue dated 18 September 2015 identifies people and livestock waiting for well water at Garba Tulla, Kenya, with exact place and date.