The drought of 1972 is a reference point to calculate the age of Vyjayanta Ithape, 70, who gave birth to a son and had also lost her husband that year. Chincholi in Beed, Maharashtra, India where she lives alone, has been relying on water tankers for the past three years, even during the monsoon."This one is unlike any other drought in the past, we have grain to eat but no water to drink." March 21, 2016.
A woman uses a tumbler to fill her pot from a small puddle on the bed of a well in Atola in Latur, Maharashtra, India. The previous day, Kevalbai Kamble, 45, stood in a line at the village's community tap for two hours and collapsed before she could collect her two pots of water. She was declared 'brought dead' at the Government Hospital in Latur. May 04, 2016.
Baliram Jadhav, 40, waits on the operating table for anaesthesia to be administered before a surgery to remove the stones in his kidney at a private hospital in Latur city, Maharashtra. Jadhav, a farmer, says water from a bore well, which he’s been consuming for two years after the well dried up, is responsible for the stones. He delayed the surgery for two years as he didn’t have the money, but went in for the surgery as the pain grew worse with money borrowed from relatives and friends. May 03, 2016.