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Pratap Singh, 52, a farmer from the village of Saini, pop. 4000, Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is portrayed while cleaning the way to his irrigation pump next to a paper mill drain flowing directly into the Kali river (East) waters, on Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008. Pratap laments that the groundwater he was using for irrigation until one year ago has now finished and accuses the local industries to be taking it all for manufacturing products while discharging severely contaminated and untreated waters back into the environment. Not even after the monsoon season the village aquifers are able to fully recharge.
