I know you are already bored with the water issue. Don't be deceived. This is not about water, sort of. The picture above is taken from my copy of the National Peace Corps Association Worldview, Winter 2005. You may be asking why I have a copy of such a magazine given that I never worked with the Peace Corp and considering the fact that it is 2010. Bueno, that I can't explain. Why is a picture from this magazine posted on my blog? That I can answer. Because this is the very same picture as seen in the April 2010 National Geographic referenced in the previous post on water. You can also find a copy of the picture at this link. Oops, you'll need to search the archive to pull up the April issue.

I guess I just thought that my magazine would provide their own pictures for their magazine; or maybe I had the expectation that they would at least use up-to-date pictures. When I read that article in National Geographic, I thought those people in Rajastan were really thirsty, lined up at that well at the precise moment that I was reading the article--this makes sense because I was reading it late at night, when the sun would be high in the sky over India, as portrayed in the photograph. It turns out that that was so five years ago, maybe more. So what is the story like now in Rajastan? That well is probably dried and gone. Or maybe its the people that are, dried and gone. Or maybe everyone filled their jug and called it a day, everything's fine. I'd like to believe the latter.