- A woman in drought-prone Bundelkhand makes as many as 8–10 trips a day to fetch water for an 11-member family as village taps run dry and temperatures top 40°C.
- The region is heating up—parts of Bundelkhand have neared 48°C—making groundwater scarce and turning handpumps into crowded, contested resources.
- Longstanding caste divisions are shaping access to those limited pumps: Dalit residents say they often wait or are humiliated while dominant castes use the wells, heightening tensions as water grows scarcer.
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