Yavatmal, Vidarbha:
The summer has barely begun and wells in Mangi village in Vidarbha have already run dry. For two days, desperate villagers crowded around in the hope that some groundwater would seep through.
The villagers scramble for water after water tankers arrive.
This is the most important time and the task of the day. Villagers collect as much water as they can because nobody knows when the tanker will come next.
This is Vidarbha, the cotton belt of Maharashtra, which sees the highest number of farm suicides in the country.
Five of its 11 districts are now water-scarce, less than 20 per cent water left in their irrigation projects, the shadow of drought is looming.
In a matter of minutes, 5,000 litres of water provided by the tankers vanishes. The desperate wait for a tanker continues.
"We have two borewells and two wells in the village. Both are dry," said Rama Atram, villager.