When Kajal Lodha and her fellow villagers want water, they have a long walk and a steep climb ahead of them.

The people in a village in Madhya Pradesh, India, have to walk several miles in the hot sun each day to find a well that has water in it. Many wells in India have dried up in the summer heat, so the process of finding a water-filled one is often difficult.

The wells are up to 40 feet deep, and the water in them is often dirty, milky white in color, and home to worms. They try to make it safe to drink by boiling it.

Girls from the village climb down the stones on the sides of the well