Across the villages there are no cooking stove, no gas cylinders. Women cook using chulha, a mudstove, often using woodsticks or cow dung patties as fuel. Now a recent study says that this is one of the causes of global warming.
The mudstoves are lethal in other ways too. They are inefficient, women and children have to search for the wood sticks to burn. They produce enormous amount of smoke...
The easiest would be harnessing solar energy. India, of course, unlike certain other countries, is blessed with plenty of sunshine. The problem is that the solar energy cells are expensive. TERI has been working on this area for a long time. Lately, they have been providing solar lamps to villages. Apparently, now they are working on stoves too. Let us see how far it goes.
Meantime, there is no water supply. The tanker was called in yesterday and I lifted buckets and buckets of water up. Today morning the water, brackish brownish stuff, made its appearance around 7ish in the morning. Promptly, the residents opened their tube and started watering their lawns. Grrrr....
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