Hard measures for drinking water in India

Women carrying empty pitchers walk to draw water from a well near the banks of the dried-up Dharji lake at Dharji village, west of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, May 14, 2011. The village has six wells but only one of them has water. In the afternoon women from the village must wait for two to three hours for the water level to rise before they are able to draw water. Also, it is a two to three kilometres' walk to the well. Authorities say water levels have dropped due to a decrease in rainfall. This year, the country has forecast a normal monsoon. Picture taken May 14, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]