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

Sunita Kashap, 23, a housewife from the village of Bhanera Khemchand, pop. 2000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is portrayed while washing dishes near a hand-pump providing water contaminated with alarming levels of pesticides and heavy metals, on Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008. Sunita is affected by a cancer on her right eye that has started to develop about two years ago. Doctors believe its cause to be the unsafe water she is drinking on an everyday basis.

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Sunita Kashap, 23, a housewife from the village of Bhanera Khemchand, pop. 2000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is portrayed while washing dishes near a hand-pump providing water contaminated with alarming levels of pesticides and heavy metals, on Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008. Sunita is affected by a cancer on her right eye that has started to develop about two years ago. Doctors believe its cause to be the unsafe water she is drinking on an everyday basis.
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