'Slow Poison' - India, UP - March - April 2008 www.alexmasi.co.uk

Kapil, a 12-year-old girl from Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is sitting on her bed during a hot spring afternoon, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008. Her family is affected by water contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides delivered by their private hand-pump as they cannot collect it from far 2-3 kilometres away on an everyday basis. Throughout her body and face a skin allergy is noticeable, and her family laments the same problem as well as regular stomach pain.

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Kapil, a 12-year-old girl from Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is sitting on her bed during a hot spring afternoon, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008. Her family is affected by water contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides delivered by their private hand-pump as they cannot collect it from far 2-3 kilometres away on an everyday basis. Throughout her body and face a skin allergy is noticeable, and her family laments the same problem as well as regular stomach pain.