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

An elder villager is attacking Pardip, a 12-year-old boy from Simlana village, pop.4000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, for no apparent reason, on Saturday, Mar. 29, 2008. Pardip developed a neurological disorder due to the long-term effects of consuming contaminated water at the age of two. Him and his family still use the 40 ft deep hand-pump located in their courtyard which provides water with large quantities of heavy metals and pesticides leaked through the ground from the nearby drains and the severely polluted Hindon river.

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An elder villager is attacking Pardip, a 12-year-old boy from Simlana village, pop.4000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, for no apparent reason, on Saturday, Mar. 29, 2008. Pardip developed a neurological disorder due to the long-term effects of consuming contaminated water at the age of two. Him and his family still use the 40 ft deep hand-pump located in their courtyard which provides water with large quantities of heavy metals and pesticides leaked through the ground from the nearby drains and the severely polluted Hindon river.