“Water comes once every three days, and today I couldn’t even wash clothes because none came,” says Anju Devi, a resident of Dundahera village. Her family of 11 shares an underground tank meant to last them through dry spells. Last month, they spent Rs 6,000 on tankers alone.
“We use it cautiously, like the saying goes, boond boond se ghada bhar jaata hai,” says Roshni Devi, 55, who runs a small shop near her home in Dundahera in Sector 21 and has watched the crisis worsen for two decades.
