For tens of millions of Indians, gaining access to blank water remains to be dream. People residing in rural spaces go back and forth miles on foot, throughout harsh terrain, to assemble water from resources that aren’t at all times blank.

In 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the Jal Jeevan (water is lifestyles) Mission, which goals to carry faucet water to each and every Indian house by way of 2024. Millions of families have benefitted from the programme.

With simply two years to move prior to the closing date, tens of millions are nonetheless ready to get blank faucet water.

The BBC’s Divya Arya travelled around the nation to peer the successes of the programme and likewise the demanding situations that stay.

Shot and edited by way of Debalin Roy