By pressing my shutter button just as the shawl of her sari covered her face, I was able to make one woman into thousands. Although it is the 21st Century, rural Indians still must draw water from the village pump. Central plumbing not generally exist outside of the urban areas. This is a fact of life – every day starts at the pump, where water is obtained for household purposes. Abstracting this woman changes her into a symbolic figure. She becomes all who, day after day and year after year, must go to the water instead of letting the water come to them.