Ground report: Tribal villages near Mumbai face water crisis

During hot summer metro city like Mumbai hardly face any water cut, but there are tribal villages approximately 80-90km away from the Maximum city which are struggling for every drop of water. During hot summer metro city like Mumbai hardly face any water cut, but there are tribal villages approximately 80-90km away from the Maximum city which are struggling for every drop of water. Being so close to Mumbai, as compared to Marathwada, tribal people are facing lot of problems to get water every day. Dry wells, women balancing water buckets on their heads, small children helping their parents to fill the water. All these are really heart touching visuals from the tribal village near Mumbai called Bangar Wadi. To fetch water, a young man has entered in the empty well and with help of leaf he is filling water in a metal bucket. The way he climbs with that filled metal bucket is dangerous. But, water scarcity has forced these people to take this risk or go to that extent. DRY WELLS There are total 3 public wells in this village out of which two are totally dry. One well, which is at the entrance of village, gets water when any NGO or govt tanker comes and fills water in it. When we reached at that well, govt tanker had filled up water in the well and that’s why there was crowd gathered around it. Such crowd is not a regular scene here as today was the second time govt tanker had come since April. Thus, every one wanted to fill up maximum buckets as early as possible. “Every year, we face this situation. Govt doesn’t pay that much attention to our problem. They constructed two wells in our village, but it is of no use. Water doesn’t remain in these wells for longer period.” said a local villager Sitaram Bangar. After this, we moved to nearby village called More Wadi. This is another small tribal village with a population of approximately 100 to 140 people. When we reached here, people in anticipation of water tanker had already gathered with their buckets. Small children were…

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