As Nashik deals with acute water scarcity, women hike 3 km to get muddy water from nearly-dry well | Video
India Today
Residents of a village in Maharashtra’s Nashik had to resort to filtering dirty, muddy water fetched from a well due to a lack of clean drinking water. Women also have to walk 3-km on a daily basis to fetch water for the people in their family.
Due to an acute water shortage in a village in Maharashtra’s Nashik, a man had to fetch muddy water from a well where the water level had dropped to below the base level.
Women in the village are also forced to walk 3 kilometres to fetch water for the family.
News agency ANI released a video on Twitter that highlights the pains the villagers have to go through to extract drinkable water from the muddy water that was fetched from deep inside a nearly-dry well.
#WATCH| Amid an acute water crisis at a village in Maharashtra's Nashik, a man is forced to fetch muddy water by going down into a deep well, where the water level has plummeted to below the base of the well. Women travel arduous 3 km-long treks to fetch water for the family. pic.twitter.com/ABXetKENfZ
More than 20 vessels are placed around the well, and they are dropped one by one into the well, where a man fills it up with muddy water and sends it back.
