men and boys are much more likely to collect water when they can use mechanized transport like bikes scooters and trucks a survey of water collection in mongolia showed that in ulaanbaatar men made up the majority of water collectors across all forms of water collection but were particularly prominent in water collection by vehicle and by animal hawkins and seager in of urban households that collected water by vehicle men were the sole collectors and in urban households that used horses to collect water only men performed this task