Unusual tradition in rural India allows men to marry multiple times to access more water, raising questions of true motives.

Tribal villages in Maharashtra have men with more than one wife, each allocated to do daily household chores. Shanta is the only wife of Bhagat Ram. She forces him to do second marriage as she is fed up of doing all the work alone. Bhagat Ram marries Beena and Shanta feels jealous of her when seeing her getting intimate with Bhagat Ram. Beena hurts herself while going to fill water and can't do the chores. Shanta then forces Bhagat Ram to do third marriage. Bhagat Ram marries Maya who feels ignored in between the first two wives and has an affair outside while Beena is found dead in the village.—[email protected]

In a village in Maharashtra, the water problem is so severe that people have to walk 10 kilometers through the forest and hills to get water. In such a situation, a wife is unable to complete the work, so every man in the village has married two to three times. Similarly, Bhagat Ram has also married three times just to fetch water. Through Water wives, we want to show whether women are only meant to fetch water? Are marriages being done only to get things? Can't the water problem be solved or will women continue to be used for water in this way?