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Using a toothbrush, Poonam, 14, her sister Jyoti, 15, and their mother Sanjita, 43, are decorating their feet with colours while sitting on the floor of their newly built home in 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'.