The colour of water - by P. Sainath

Two years of drought has started to take its toll on the people of Vidarbha, with a failed crop leaving them with no income to tide over the crisis.

— Photo: P. SAINATH 

Parched land:Across rural Amravati, Akola, Washim and Yavatmal, almost every human being you see in the morning is collecting or searching for water. A scene in Akola.

This article in a Indian newspaper The Hindu, speaks of the difficulties in the lives of people living with the depleted water resources in that area. The effects it has on ecology and economy...