Tap water reaches Barmer village, over 700km away from Narmada
Jaisalmer, November 26, 2024.
In a landscape dominated by sand dunes, Sundra village is situated 170km from Barmer district headquarters on the India-Pakistan border. People living here traditionally depended on 'beris' or deep wells for drinking water, but they dried up over the years and three tube wells provide water in Sundra. The water though is excessively saline.
Nenu Devi from the village recollects that when she first arrived at her in-laws' house from her parental home in Bandhra 45 years ago, she struggled to get drinking water for days. She would lament to her parents about the dreadful conditions here. This Sunday, the 80-year-old witnessed a 'miracle': drinking water flowing from a tap in her house.
It was no less miraculous for 60-year-old Roopi Devi, another villag...
