More Scenes from Rural UP

Cooking fuel and drinking water are 2 daily problems in rural areas. For cooking, rural villages in Uttar Pradesh solved that problem by drying and storing cowpies.
Village cowpie storage-

Interior revealed-

Cow chips stacked-

Outdoor cooker-

Unfortunately, burning cowchips can lead to all sorts of health problems. If the cooker is indoors, it leads to issues of asthma especially among kids. If the cows ate straw with arsenic, it could also lead to people inhaling it when the pies are burnt.

Limping goat- definitely a first for me, never seen a sling on a goat. Must have been a special pet.

An awful lot of work...

... to get a drink of water and go home. Definitely a team effort by toddlers.

Climbing up

Salute!