Undaunted by Sachin Kengar and Yogita Desai's deaths, scores of small children in Maharashtra brave the scorching, unbearable, heat to draw water from unguarded wells. Earlier in the series:......
IMAGE: Women wait with their containers to collect water in drought-hit Latur, Maharashtra. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters A woman died in Maharashtra’s Latur district on Tuesday after......
Last week, Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com and Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com reported how 12-year-old Yogita Desai died when fetching water.Today, they report how a nine-year-old child drowned while trying to......
Yogita Desai, 12, died of 'cardio pulmonary arrest' after she collapsed on her way home while fetching water. Sachin Kengar, 9, drowned while filling water from a well. Will the deaths of these......
Drought or no drought... life goes in water-starved Beed district in Maharashtra's Marathwada region. As Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com and Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com travelled more than 1,000 kilometres......