“From a distance their life looks very beautiful. But there’s so much potential going to waste.” Deepti Asthana, a photographer, spent a decade documenting the lives of schoolgirls in the Indian Himalayas. Her pictures capture their daily struggle to find water
The six-hour trek for a bucket of water
As mountain springs dry up, girls in northern India are spending so long fetching water they have little time to study
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