The Ingenious Ways India Keeps Cool in a Heat Wave

Even for a country that is used to dealing with high temperatures, it’s been a week of severe heat across much of India.

With heat induced deaths totaling more than 1100 in southern stare this past week authorities have set up water camps, advised people to stay indoors during the hottest part of the day and put hospitals on alert to treat those with sunstroke and heat exhaustion.

Here’s a look at some of the other ways people have found to cool off.

An Indian man, above, takes a bath under the tap of a water tanker on a hot day in Ahmedabad, a city in the west of India, Thursday, May 21, 2015

A commuter uses the train water pipes to bathe at a railway station in Allahabad northern India. Most of north India has been gripped under heat wave conditions with temperatures soaring to over 46 degrees Celsius.