Bloody waters
thirty-year-old Rakesh (not his real name), a resident of Dosigaon village in Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh ( mp ), is reconciled to the fact that he will never get married. "We have been searching for a suitable match for the past eight years, but our efforts have been in vain,' says his father. It is not only Rakesh who is facing this problem. Dosigaon and nine other villages in the same district have difficulty finding alliances from other villages. The reason is simple: non-availability of safe drinking water, or rather the availability of highly contaminated water.
"The colour of every source of water