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Mar 21 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
It takes months of hard work to find water in Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu. It is an assault on the senses — the heat, the smoke, the juddering engine. The well-diggers – 5 men and 3 women – hew mud and rock, and heave it up in 40°C #WorldWaterDay2022 🧶

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Sivagangai is a part of Chettinad, famous for its cuisine and architecture. Here, water has always been a problem. Given its location in Tamil Nadu’s ‘rain shadow’ region, rainfall is often patchy and has been distressingly meagre in the last couple of years

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#WorldWaterDay2022 🧶 The well-diggers of Sivagangai and the punishing amount of hard labour needed to strike groundwater.
If you wanted to know how a well is dug, we have you covered. Full story #WorldWaterDay2022

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