Keonjhar: Even as temperatures keep on soaring, water crisis gripped Gopalpur Udrasahi under Ghatagaon block in Keonjhar. The tribal families living here have no access to safe drinking water while they have to consume the contaminated water which they collect from an abandoned well on a farmland.
Women carrying water in pitchers and buckets and staggering in precarious foot racks is a common sight here. “We have been suffering from acute water scarcity over the years. We have no option but to drink water from that abandoned well. The village needs a tube well, but the administration pays no heed to our pleas,” rued Rala Munda, a resident.
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