Nashik, May 23 -- Women in several villages in Maharashtra's Nashik district are walking long distances and risking their lives to fetch drinking water as an acute water crisis worsens amid drying wells and poor rainfall.
In Kakadpana and nearby villages, residents gather around deep wells for hours each day to collect water, often standing precariously along narrow edges to lower buckets into shrinking water sources.
"We want clean water too," said a young girl from Kakadpana village. "Why do we receive such poor-quality water? Are we insects? We are human beings too."Residents said the water available is muddy and yellowish, yet many families have no alternative source for drinking water.
Despite the arrival of the monsoon season in Ma...