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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Women’s lives get harder in Bundelkhand as water scarcity grows -Jigyasa Mishra

Women’s lives get harder in Bundelkhand as water scarcity grows -Jigyasa Mishra

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published Published on Jul 8, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 14, 2022


-TheThirdPole.net

Up to 70% of women in parts of the drought-prone region in central India are affected by acute water shortages, according to one NGO estimate

Every day during the summer months, Kamlawati Yadav wakes up at 6 am and walks half a kilometre to a house with a private borewell. “Getting water is the first thing I do,” Kamlawati says. “I carry one water container on my head and a second by hand.”

Once home she wakes her sons, who are asleep on their cots outside the house due to the summer heat.

She will have to make the trip again in the evening, carrying 72 litres on both journeys, to get the water her family of five needs.

“We have to get things done with four buckets of water per day,” she says as she moves the containers inside the house with the help of her daughter.

When Kamlawati’s husband, Raghunandan Yadav, is not busy looking after the family’s livestock he accompanies her to the borewell, carrying the containers on his bicycle. Sometimes her sons help, but she is ultimately responsible for making sure the family has water.

The Yadav family live in Barua village in the Satna district of Bundelkhand – a hilly, drought-prone region in central India that straddles Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states. More than 18 million people live in Bundelkhand.

In 2015, Anil Gupta, a division head at India’s National Institute of Disaster Management, wrote that in recent decades “Bundelkhand has become a synonym for drought, unemployment and perennial water stress.”

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TheThirdPole.net, 8 July, 2022, https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/livelihoods/womens-lives-get-harder-in-bundelkhand-as-water-scarcity-grows/


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