Nashik: Many women in rural areas risk their lives to get water for their family throughout the summer, when many portions of India are hit by drought and heat waves. One film reveals how, as water sources dry up, a few women in Maharashtra make a risky dive into a deep well out of pure desperation for clean drinking water.
The video is making swirls in Twitter, a woman making her way down a well, clinging to the tiny and near-invisible steps. The footage is from a village in Nashik district.
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Maharashtra is battling an intense heatwave. According to a forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the heatwave conditions are likely to prevail in isolated pockets in Vidharbha till April 10.
In a tweet on April 6, KS Hosalikar, head of Climate Research and Services, IMD, Pune, said, “In the next 48 hours, heatwave is expected in North Central Maharashtra and some parts of Vidarbha.”
A heatwave, according to the IMD, occurs when “a station’s maximum temperature reaches at least 40 degrees Celsius or more for plains and at least 30 degrees Celsius or more for mountainous regions.” The temperature difference between normal and extreme should be between 4.5 and 6.4 degrees Celsius. When the maximum temperature exceeds 6.4 degrees Celsius above normal, a severe heatwave is declared.
According to a Skymet weather report from April 5, maximum temperatures in Akola, Vidarbha, have been above 40 degrees Celsius, with the mercury even reaching 44 degrees Celsius. The Skymet report adds, “Akola happens to be the only station in Vidarbha to have registered 44 degrees thus far.”
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