Women in Maharashtra’s Tondwal village are facing difficulties in collecting water amid water crisis
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Even after seven decades of independence, people in many areas of India are yearning for basic facilities like water. In election rallies, leaders promise to take them to the moon, but the public is yearning for every drop of water. The latest case is of Nashik (Nashik Water Crisis). Hundreds of villages here are facing water crisis. The wells have dried up. A picture is coming from one such village, Borichiwari, in which women are forced to risk their lives by going down into the well to fetch water.
The water crisis has deepened in Borichiwari village of Taluka Peth in Nashik district. Women are forced to go down about 70 feet into the well and fill dirty water. A video of this incident has also surfaced, in which some women are standing surrounding a well. They have utensils in their hands to fill water. Everyone is waiting for their turn. Then a woman, risking her life, goes down into the well with the help of a rope and fills her vessel with water. Only a nominal amount of water is visible in this almost dried up well.
Let us tell you that earlier in February 2025, the district administration had approved a scheme of Rs 8.8 crore to meet the water shortage in Nashik district. According to the Times of India report, this scheme mainly focused on measures related to drinking water supply. According to a senior official of Nashik Zilla Parishad, the scheme talked about the deployment of water supply tankers to provide drinking water to the needy villages during the summer season.
There are many villages in Nashik where women have to walk several kilometers to get water. In the year 2022, the groundwater survey revealed that 213 villages in 15 blocks of Pune, Nashik, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Amravati districts have to face shortage of drinking water since April. At the same time, after the report of the Groundwater Survey Department came in 2025, digging wells has been banned in 776 villages of Nashik district. So that water cannot be exploited.
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