I asked about the water situation since I saw everybody fetching water from a place nearby the school. They told me that the drinking water come once in 10 days and that too the timing is not fixated. It comes for 2-3 hours and they must fetch water which can last 10 days straight. They store drinking water in plastic syntax tank. They have a pipeline, but it’s been dead since beginning. There is a single place from where they can get drinking and daily use water. Daily use water they can get 24 hours a day, but they can’t use that water for drinking. It’s salty and you might cholera from drinking that water. Since they also must carry daily use water, everybody (mostly female) in the village are always busy in fetching water. I went to the roof of Vipulbhai’s house and I saw this small girl struggling to carry a steel pot filled with water, the pot had many dents, assuming it has been dropped many times because of heavy weight. This is the story of every little girl in this village, they don’t have playtime after school. This is the only thing they do after they are done with school. Scarcity of drinking water and unavailability of pipeline has stolen their right of being a child! The time child should spend playing with other children is being wasted in fetching a water for their family. The same thing is true for other members of family. The time they spend on water could be invested in other businesses like diamond polishing, knitting, sewing, sweet making. If they had water availability directly from their house, it would make huge difference in their life.
Young girl struggling to carry water pot.
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