WHERE WOMEN RUN THE SHOW
Mar 20, 2021
3 minutes
By RAJ CHENGAPPA
BANDEEP SINGH
Facing a perennial crisis, women in a Gujarat village take charge of piped water supply—and their destinies
Geeta Ben still recalls with a shudder her daily struggle to get water when she married Hasmukh Bhai and shifted to his village Motipura Veda in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district 22 years ago. She had to make several trips to the earthquake-hit villages in Bhuj, where civic amenities had been completely destroyed.
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