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Workers are collecting chemical sludge outside a local paper mill in the village of Saini, pop. 4000, Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, to be then sold at the price of Rs 3000 for a full tractor, on Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008. The sludge, used to manufacture boxes and invitation cards, come to create when heavily contaminated waters discharged by the paper mill mix with the mud nearby, while also penetrating the soil and reaching the aquifers the population of Saini has been reliant on for generations.
