AMBALAVAYAL: This is the story of a man who sells water for a living. The said person, Haridasan, is not selling package drinking water or use tankers to bring water to his customers, Instead he carries it on his shoulder after extracting pure water from a nearby well, He does not see the introduction of piped water, widespread wells and borewells as a setback. Because there is demand for the water he brings.

Even at the age of sixty-seven, Haridasan would bring water every morning and evening to Kodiyattil in Andoor's Kurinjilakam.

He only sells two cans of water together and charges Rs 25 rupees for it. Each time he would go back for a kilometre and fetch water.

He has been fetching water from the same well for 47 years. This well constructed by PWD in 1952 in Ambalavayal town. Haridasan travels from Andoor to Ambalavayal by bus and starts supplying water.

In the early days ten to fifteen people did this job. Others pulled back as shops and homes started getting piped water. Haridasan decided that this job, which he started at the age of 20, was enough to support his wife and two daughters. Haridasan is the only one who now draws water with a rope and a bucket. He provides water to more than twenty institutions.