While that's not a very high percentage," he said, "a number of those were public wells.

The working-class people mostly live on periphery of village and do not have access to public wells.

The public wells are numerous, well today there are about fifty of them, but many more were in the past.

In 1898, villagers got their water from two public wells, or one of the 55 private ones.

Like other public wells, it is tested several times a year to guarantee its purity.

Possibly the 1997 figure does not include the urban population served by public wells.

At the current rate of migration, the water will reach the closest public wells within 10 to 15 years.

He also built public wells across town to provide free water, at a time when none was being supplied by the municipality.

He began a campaign by eating a meal with Harijans and opening public wells to them.

This is also a deep-recharge area, where three public wells are pumping drinking water.