It's a known fact that in some areas of Bihar, people from different castes live in separate colonies. But the caste divide doesn't end there. Now water too is being divided on the basis of caste.
Kulhara village in Bihar's Vaishali district has six drinking water wells. And in the scorching summer, Janpatia Devi's family doesn't have a drop to drink. That's because she is a Dalit, and the well in the village meant only for her community has gone dry.
Wells the only source of drinking water in this village -- are divided on the basis of caste. but Dalits get the worst deal.
"The water is not potable at all. It is dirty but we have no other choice," Sunita Devi, a distraught villager, says.
And dry wells mean a half-kilometre trek to nearby villages to fetch water.
Source: ibnlive.com 30/May/2008
