(Baonghean.vn) - The drought, considered the worst in the world's second most populous country in the past 40 years, has pushed more than 330 million people into misery. All they are waiting for is perhaps just a rain...
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| The residential area lies next to the dried-up Rantapura Lake on the outskirts of Ahmedabad - the largest city in Gujarat state and the seventh largest metropolitan area in India. |
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| A little girl carries a metal pot filled with precious substance… water on her head, photo taken in Latur city. |
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| The last fish that survived before Ratanpura Lake dried up are put into barrels before being released into the Sabarmati River on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. |
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| A man tries to sleep in a traffic booth on the road to avoid the sun in Kolkata. |
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| A staff member checks the water level in the tanks at a railway station in Latur. |
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| A man wearing a hood tries to push a bicycle through the dust on the banks of the Ganges River in Allahabad. |
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| People prepare water pipes while waiting for government water tankers to arrive in Masurdi village, Latur. |
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| Boys compete to catch water jets from a fountain to beat the summer heat in New Delhi. |
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| Crowds bathing at a public tap in a Kolkata market. |
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| Faced with the scorching heat, the children had no choice but to play in the mud to cool down. |
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| A child's afternoon dream on a makeshift hammock on the sidewalk on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad. |
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| The sight of people gathering and chatting while waiting for water has become familiar in Latur. |
Thao Linh
(According to Reuters)
