I travelled across four Indian cities Mumbai, Nagpur, Bhopal and Kolkata to cover diverse aspects of water problems in India.

Scarcity, contamination, easygoing laws and non-awareness have led to rising toxic levels and numerous diseases. Factories in Kolkata use unclean water to produce ice blocks which are used for cooling water and storing fish. These blocks are stored unhygienically and transported openly.

In some areas of Bhopal, people have no taps at home. Water is so scarce that a few community taps give water on alternate days. The people collect and store them in numerous canisters, buckets and utensils. Whereas in a slum in Mumbai, people have illegally attached a tap to a pipeline to collect water as their slum does not even have a community tap.

In Vidharba, near the city of Nagpur, ignorant farmers are forced to grow cotton in spite of inadequate water supply. To buy seeds and water for farming, farmers take loans from government banks. In case of poor yield or low sale prices and due to illiteracy and no legal defense, hundreds of farmers commit suicide every year on not being able to repay their loans.