As a tractor water tanker reaches Vikas Nagar of Dandur village in Ajjampur taluk of Chikkamagaluru in Karnataka, the sleepy village springs to life. Women, children, and men run towards the tractor with empty plastic vessels. Families fetch drinking water amidst heated arguments over who should get their vessels filled first.
Every day, Cheeranahalli Gram Panchayat sends two tankers of 6,000 litres each to the locality.
“It is insufficient given the population of the village. We have to wait throughout the day for the tankers to reach our place, leaving aside other work,” rued Rangamma, a resident.
