Pune: For Salabai Kisan Bhalchim (52), the resident of Pasarwadi in Malin village, life is all about extremes. While heavy rainfall keeps her homebound in the monsoon, scarcity during the summer forces her to walk 4km daily to fetch water from a natural spring at the foothills of a hillock.Pasarwadi is a remote hamlet of 150 residents in Malin village, known for heavy monsoon rain, in Ambegaon tehsil, about 120km from Pune. The sleepy village hit the headlines after a burst of heavy rain triggered a landslide here on July 30, 2014, leaving 151 residents dead and 45 houses damaged. Like Bhalchim, many women from Pasarwadi and its nearby Zanzrewadi hamlet are also forced to walk the distance daily to get their quota of water during summer. “The situation is tough here. The authorities concerned should start water tanker service to end our daily ordeal,” Bhalchim told TOI.Sonabhai Bhalchim (55), another resident, said, “There is a small water spring at the foothills, which has saved us so far. There are five to six natural springs within 1km radius of the hamlet, but they have all dried up this summer.”Sanjay Nagtilak, tehsildar of the Ambegaon tehsil, told TOI that the administration would soon approve a plan to start tanker service to the village in few days.The residents, however, said the water tanker service was a stop-gap arrangement and the authorities should have implemented rainwater harvesting and other conservation schemes in the hamlets. “We get extremely heavy rainfall in the monsoon. For a few days, we cannot even step out of the houses. In a huge contrast, we struggle for even a bucket of drinking water in the summer. The authorities should have implemented water conservation schemes in the hamlets to address this issue,” said Digambar Bhalchim, the former sarpanch of the village.Social activist Budhaji Damse, who has been working in the tribal villages for the last two decades in Ambegaon tehsil, told TOI, “The authorities need to adopt a scientific approach to address this long-pending issue. They have done precious little for these hamlets so far.”Tehsil officials said they could not implement some schemes because of labour issues. “The digging of pits, desilting old water ponds and developing new water bodies [ponds] need participation of villagers. We tried to implement some water conservation schemes but all in vain. Awareness needs to be created among villagers to encourage them to participate in such works,” said a tehsil official.Activist Damse said the administration should prepare a proper water conservation plan and discuss it with the villagers. Dilip Lembhe, a Malin resident, “The politicians and tehsil administration are busy in the general election. Who cares about the real issues? They should have inspected and taken measures accordingly.”