Water Tap In A Dry Rajasthan Village And A Dream Come True

Even though the tap supplies water to every household for only a couple of hours once a week, villagers claim it has put an end to their hardships.

Easy access to drinking water was a dream for the residents of Sundra village in Rajasthan's Barmer district till last week, when water gushed out of a tap built in the middle of a desert, after overcoming numerous obstacles, to ensure supply from a river hundreds of kilometres away.

Even though the tap, set up under the Centre's Jal Jeevan Mission, supplies water to every household for only a couple of hours once a week, villagers claim the facility has put an end to their hardships and alleviated their woes to a large extent.

"We get tap water once a week for two to three hours. We used to use saline water earlier. The only way to get sweet potable water was to store rainwater," Jetharam, a villager, said.