namdeo poses with his wives shivarti l and bagabai r outside their house in denganmal village maharashtra india april 21 2015 in denganmal a village in maharashtra state some men take a second or third wife just to make sure their households have enough drinking water becoming what are known as water wives allows the women often widows or single mothers to regain respect in conservative rural india by carrying water from the well quite some distance from the remote village when the water wife who does not usually share the marital bed becomes too old to continue the husband 2cygp23.jpg from village wife xxxली View Photo