India is facing its driest June in 100 years, with a rainfall deficit of more than 42 percent, exposing the country’s growing water crisis. In Maharashtra’s drought-hit Beed district, farmers fear crop failure while women walk miles every day to collect drinking water. Experts warn that climate change, rapid urbanisation, deforestation and poor rainwater management are turning erratic monsoons into a long-term threat to food security and water supplies, even as cities swing between floods and shortages. Tanushree Pandey reports from Maharashtra