In front of the house they inhabit just outside the village or Parchh in northern Punjab, Jaswinder Kraur and her house aide prepare breakfast for her three kids, while her husband Mangaa has risen before dawn to tend the fields of wheat that will grow for four months before harvest. The Kraurs are just one of four families who tend 1.5 hectares that are owned by Suda Andhir. The families eat some of what they produce and the rest is sold, with a percentage going back to the landowner. Through flood irrigation channels run the periphery of the fields, farmers on Suda Andhir’s lands are provided free water from Amarik Singh’s irrigation well, located just across the street. About three other land owners and a total of 15 families depend on the water from Amarik Singh’s well, which he has owned for about 30 years. (Image © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue)