Residents of the village of Tuvar in India, gather in the village schoolhouse to meet with an envoy from the Narottam Lalbhai Rural Development Fund and University of Pittsburgh professor Dr. John Camillus about the potential of bringing solar power to the village. The residents of Tuvar live with no electricity, just like nearly 300 million other Indians, a full quarter of the population of India.
Residents of the village of Tuvar in India, gather in the village schoolhouse to meet with an envoy from the Narottam Lalbhai Rural Development Fund and University of Pittsburgh professor Dr. John Camillus about the potential of bringing solar power to the village. The residents of Tuvar live with no electricity, just like 300 million other Indians, a full quarter of the population of India.
In Tuvar, a village in India, 231 people share the same pump well, their only source of water.
A woman uses a hand-pump well to wash her clothes in the village of Tuvar in India. The well is the village's only source of water.
Children gather as an envoy from the Narottam Lalbhai Rural Development Fund and University of Pittsburgh professor Dr. John Camillus arrive at the village of Tuvar.
The 231 residents of Tuvar live with no electricity, just like 300 million other Indians, a full quarter of the population of India. Their homes remain dark, even during the day.
An envoy from the NGO Narottam Lalbhai Rural Development Fund treks to Jetvas, a village that was provided solar panels by the government. With those solar panels, they are able to run several LED lights, a fan, and charge cell phones with the power generated by the panels.
A woman walks in the village of Jetvas, India.
Dhapuuben Kharadi, far right, lives with her daughters, Puniben and Menuben, and their children, in Jetvas, a village that was provided solar panels by the government. With those solar panels, they are able to run several LED lights, a fan, and charge cell phones with the power generated by the panels.
One of Dhapuuben Kharadi's daughters folds clothes by the window at their home in Jetvas, a village that was provided solar panels by the government. With those solar panels, they are able to run several LED lights, a fan, and charge cell phones with the power generated by the panels.
A man paces back and forth on the rooftop of a building outfitted with solar panels in Bangaluru, India, on Aug. 8, 2016.
Hundreds of cars, motorcyclists and moped riders sit in traffic in Bangaluru.
A woman walks in Bangaluru, India, on Aug. 9, 2016.
An auto rickshaw driver drives through Chennai, India, on Aug. 10, 2016.
The India Institute of Technology is building a green research park adjacent to campus. Here, a woman carries water onto the site as men behind her use baskets to move rubble on Aug. 10, 2016.
A man rides a horse at Marina Beach in Chennai on Aug. 10, 2016.
Rice farmers work along the route between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, the company steel town owned and run by Tata Steel.
Rice farmers work along the route between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, the company steel town owned and run by Tata Steel.
A woman watches the traffic while crossing the street in Jamshedpur.
Jamshedpur is located along the convergence of two rivers, the Subarnarekha and Kharkai. Locals use the rivers for water, to fish, to bathe and to swim.
Fabric merchants climb their inventory for customers in the Bistupur Market outside the outter wall for Tata Steel in Jampshedpur.
The Bistupur Market is located outside the outer wall for Tata Steel in Jampshedpur.
Students sit and watch Jamshedpur's Independence Day Celebration.
Patrons walk through the Tata Steel Zoological Park, the company owned zoo in Jampshedpur.
A cow rests next to a row of shops in Jamshedpur.
The Tata Steel plant has 6 blast furnaces and produces about 10 million tons of steel annually. Tata Steel Group is the 10th largest steel producing company in the world, according to the World Steel Association.
A Tata Steel worker checks the temperature of the one of the plant's 6 blast furnaces.
Steel coils produced at Tata Steel's Jamshedpur plant wait to be shipped.
Tata Steel feeds steel it produces to Tata motors, their auto plant which produces 90k vehicles per year. Here, a Tata truck drives the road between Ranchi and Jamshedpur.