These images from Chatra district in Jharkhand can shake anyone's heart.

In Hesatu village of Pratappur block the brutal heatwave has turned clean drinking water into a distant dream for primitive tribal families.

Here people from the Baiga, Birhor and Ganju communities dig into the dry riverbed with their bare hands under the scorching sun just to wet their throats with muddy drops seeping through the sand.

Village handpumps have dried up and water tankers stand broken.

Locals say this dirty water is making their children sick and the burden of medical treatment is pushing them into deep debt.

Helpless people are forced to put their mouths directly into these sand pits to drink water.

There is only one fear left. If this last support of the river also dries up where will these thirsty throats go?

Amid all claims of development the people of Hesatu village are begging for just one drop of water.