Maharashtra's worst water crisis

Narayanamurthy S Updated - April 21, 2016 at 12:23 AM.

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Women of Sakhara village take their cattle out in search of fodder. Cattle camps are being run by the administration. Villagers at Sakhara said that they had seen peacocks, deer and jackals drinking sewage water at night ▲
A parched field at Sakhara village ▲
A bore well supplying water to a field has gone dry at Sakhara village ▲
A dry hand pump at Sakhara village ▲
The well, villagers used to draw water from at Sakhara Village in Latur. Notice the water level. ▲
Water seems to be the discussion in almost every sphere of life in Latur. A sticker inside an auto rickshaw announcing the 100th birthday of a saint Shivalinga Shivacharya has a message - Water is sacred, trees are gods 'Prasad'. ▲
A long queue for drinking water on the Latur Barshi Highway ▲
Latur district is at a higher altitude than all its neighbours. One has to ascend the ghats to enter the district. See the denuded hilly ghat section. Location - Beed-Latur highway ▲
A vinyl hoarding with an advertisement of Datta Borewells - says it all - at Beed ▲
A veiled woman drinking water from a huge pot kept outside a shop selling musical instruments at Beed. Such instances are common in the part of India. ▲
Service centres such as these have to buy tanker water. Business is dull and has come down from 50-60 vehicles per day to about 20-30 ▲
Kanti Shah owner of Kirti Beej Bhandar in his store. As many as 40 such outlets selling seeds in Beed have seen their business dwindle by 90 per cent. ▲

Our lensman K Raghavendra Rao captured some of the grim situation in Beed and Latur.

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