Its always a now-or-never battle for a bucket of water and the fight gets severe in the peak of summer months in Chittoor District. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
IPeople queue up near a public tap at Baireddipalle in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar.
Women make a beeline with empty pitchers at a community borewell in Baireddipalle of Chittoor District. Water scarcity has started hitting the women hard in these areas in 2015 summer. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
Getting water is not the responsibility of women alone. Men share stand in the queue and patiently wait for their turn to get a pitcher or two of water in Baireddipalle in Chittoor district. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
For men, their bicycle driving ability comes as an added advantage in carrying the pitchers home, while women carry them on their head in Baireddipalle in Chittoor District. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
Men get their tricycles to the water point and if they dont have one, they hire it. Those in the trade of transportation business make use of their pushcarts or tricycles to ferry water pitchers. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
This is a double whammy for this poor woman, who manages a pitcher of water on her head, another on the side at Baireddipalle in Chittoor District. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
This scrawny old woman seems to be neither weak nor infirm to carry two pitchers of water at one go, which is no mean task for anyone. This is a scene at the community borewell in Baireddipalle in Chittoor District. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar