Most of the permanent structures in this area are built of the local stone, with wooden beams and struts, roofed with large flat stones. The Lamani tribal peoples living in the forest areas build their houses from red laterite cut from the surrounding area and cow dung floors. Less permanent structures are built of small sticks or brushwood woven between poles, daubed with mud and thatched with reeds. Cooking is usually done over fire-wood in a small built up clay hearth in the kitchen area or outside. Water will be carried from a village well, bore well pump or a stream. There will be no toilets. Whatever the building, when the family lies down to sleep, there will be little spare floor space.