Man Carries Pot of Water in Maharashtra

Bharat Dagadu Gauddab's son of Sohale village, Mohol taluka, Solapur district in Maharashtra, carrying pots of water from a well about 300m away from his house. The well is incomplete and dry but has been filled with water supplied from a water tanker of 17000 litres capacity and costs Rs1800. It has been filled twice in 15 days.

Unique identifier: GP0STPOU8

Type: Image

Shoot date: 06/03/2016

Locations: Asia, India, Maharashtra, South Asia

Credit line: © Subrata Biswas / Greenpeace

Size: 4500px × 3000px 4MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Drought in Maharashtra, India

The State Government of Maharashtra has already declared 15747 villages of 12183 Gram Panchayats in 21 districts as drought affected, under relevant State regulations in October 2015.
Solapur is an arid district with normal rainfall averaging about 500 mm, which is quite low. The sugar cane cultivation in Solapur district and the sugar processing factories consume a huge volume of the stored water from Ujjani Dam. The drinking water needs of Solapur town is also met by the dam.

The 2015 monsoon provided a paltry 200 mm of rainfall, making it one of the worse affected districts in the drought of 2015-16.

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