India: How Water Drives Change for the Right to Food

Two and a half years ago, Lakhsmi and Aman watched their village suffer. Due to the drought, the local fields barely yielded a harvest and their parents had to go to the city in search of making a precarious living.

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The situation started to change in Bundelkhand two and a half years ago. Samarthan came to the villages and invited residents to meetings. They helped to form and train village water and sanitation committees. The aim: to closely monitor the local authorities’ planning for the construction of water pipes.