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Poonam, 10, (centre) is being bitten on the arm by a stray puppy, taken from the streets of Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'. Sachin, 18, (right) Poonam's disabled, oldest brother, a boy affected by a lower limbs paralysis, is playing games on a cellphone, while Jyoti, 11, Poonam's sister, and Sangita Jatev, 39, their mother, are sitting in the front yard of their newly built home.