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Hash, a common by-product of paper mills is photographed on the side of a wheat field in the village of Saini, pop. 4000, Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, home to a large paper manufacture. The industry also discharges untreated wastewaters back into the Kali river (East), a tributary of the larger Ganges river, from which farmers collect water for irrigation purposes, thus allowing heavy metals and pesticides to enter the entire food chain.
