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Chaya Badushi lives in the village of Kerawadi, 120 miles (190km) from the bustling streets of slot India's financial capital Mumbai, but in terms of lifestyle - a different world.
With other women from the village Chaya makes a four-hour round trip to collect water from a river. That task is done twice a day, once at 06:00 and again at 15:00.
"In summers the heat is so bad that many of us have fainted while getting water," she says.
"I have a constant headache, backache, my hands hurt because of carrying water. It's worse for senior citizens like my mother-in-law, who is more than 60 years and has to struggle with me to get water."
The exhausting task has a knock-on effect for the local community. Young women are increasingly reluctant to spend their lives hauling water, so prefer not to marry men from the village. That leaves many men struggling to find a wife.
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发表于 2022-8-12 12:47:22
