Women and children in a hamlet near India’s financial capital used buckets to draw water from a well before pouring it through strainers into vessels and other receptacles for the journey home. | Reuters
“The government encourages us to breed animals but what will we give them to drink if we don’t have any water to drink ourselves?”
India ranks among the world’s most water-stressed nations, the World Bank says, with just 4% of global water resources, despite being the world’s most populous, accounting for 18% of global population. “Until the permanent solution is in place, we are providing water tankers to ensure residents do not face issues,” state water supply officials told Reuters.
Until then, residents will have to depend on daily tanker supplies arranged by the government in summer, when the well, about 2 km away, dries up completely.“We use a strainer to make sure no solid waste goes in,” said one of the villagers, Suman Bhutambare.
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