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  • A woman pastor is caring for her goats over the sands created by the low summer flow of the heavily polluted Yamuna River, across a view of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Relatives of a deceased person are watching the body being cremated at the traditional 'burning ghat' in Agra. Reduced into ashes it will then be partly thrown into the heavily polluted Yamuna River, flowing next to the Taj Mahal.
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  • A woman pastor is standing with her goats over the sands created by the low summer flow of the heavily polluted Yamuna River, across a view of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Farmers are working in the fields created by the low summer flow of the heavily polluted Yamuna River, across a view of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A boy is fishing on the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River, across a view of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Two people are walking on the sands created by the low summer flow of the heavily polluted Yamuna River, across a view of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A boy is eating a melon next to a Mughal example of stair in the Ram Bagh Garden in Agra, on the sides of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River.
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  • An Indian family is taking a break inside the Agra Fort, standing next to the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River, in Agra. From this balcony inside the Fort, Mughal emperors used to address his men.
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  • A boy is preparing to cross the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River with his buffaloes, in Agra.
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  • A sandstorm is being created by strong winds over the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • The water of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River is bubbling with chemicals, in Agra.
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  • Relatives of a deceased person are watching the body being cremated at the traditional 'burning ghat' in Agra. Reduced into ashes it will then be partly thrown into the heavily polluted Yamuna River, flowing next to the Taj Mahal.
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  • A boy is plying where once water used to be, at the Mughal garden of Ram Bagh in Agra, on the sides of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River.
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  • A vulture is flying over the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A boys are taking pictures next to a Mughal example of stair in Agra, on the sides of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River.
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  • A stray dog is protecting a carcass from another dog on a bank of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • The statue of B. R. Ambedkar, the father founder of the Indian Constitution, is standing next to a small Hindu temple opposite the Taj Mahal, on the banks of the heavily polluted Yamuna River.
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  • Garbage has been thrown in the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Cows and their shepherd are walking by the ruins of the controversial 'Taj Heritage Corridor', sitting between the Agra Fort and the Taj, and next to the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River, in Agra.
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  • A rickshaw is driving next to the area of the controversial 'Taj Heritage Corridor', sitting between the Agra Fort and the Taj, and next to the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River, in Agra.
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  • A stray dog is crossing the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Hindu religious icons and a cow photographed on a bank of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Untreated water from a municipal drain is entering the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A boy is preparing the ground for a new body to be cremated at the traditional 'burning ghat' in Agra, while a dog is walking by. Reduced into ashes it will then be partly thrown into the heavily polluted Yamuna River, flowing next to the Taj Mahal.
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  • Men working at the traditional 'burning ghat' in Agra are taking a break for a biri (Indian leaf cigarette). Bodies are reduced to ashes here to then be partly thrown into the heavily polluted Yamuna River, flowing next to the Taj Mahal.
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  • Three women are walking inside the Taj Mahal complex where, in the original design, there was supposed to be water to keep the Taj from falling towards the heavily polluted Yamuna River, in Agra.
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  • Hindu religious icons are sitting on a bank of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra, while a boy is passing by on his bicycle.
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  • Untreated water from a municipal drain is entering the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A young Indian girl is crossing the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A stray dog is eating a carcass on a bank of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Three Indian boys are crossing the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
    Taj_Mahal_Pollution_148.JPG
  • Untreated water from a municipal drain is entering the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Birds are standing in the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A boy is carrying firewood over the sands created by the low summer flow of the heavily polluted Yamuna River, across a view of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A sandstorm is being created by strong winds over the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Visitors are looking at the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River while standing inside the main complex of the Taj Mahal, in Agra. In the original design, there should be water on the right where people are walking, so as to prevent the Taj from falling towards the river.
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  • A man is walking on a bank of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Untreated water from a municipal drain is entering the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Garbage has been thrown in the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • The heavily polluted Yamuna River is almost dry in summer, allowing flying sands to reach the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Brij Khandelwal, a renown environmental journalist for the Times of India, is walking on a bank of the heavily polluted Yamuna River, in Agra, opposite the Taj Mahal complex.
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  • A cow is walking by the ruins of the controversial 'Taj Heritage Corridor', sitting between the Agra Fort and the Taj, and next to the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River, in Agra.
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  • Women are walking on a bank of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A couple is overlooking the plain next to the Taj Mahal, the area of the controversial 'Taj Heritage Corridor', sitting between the Agra Fort and the Taj, and next to the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River, in Agra.
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  • A well, another monument of great Mughal architecture in Agra, is lying almost empty on the sides of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River.
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  • Visitors are looking at the Taj Mahal from the high walls of the Agra Fort, opposite the heavily polluted and dry Yamuna River, in Agra.
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  • Garbage has been thrown in the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
    Taj_Mahal_Pollution_154.JPG
  • Untreated water from a municipal drain is entering the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
    Taj_Mahal_Pollution_053.JPG
  • Rubbish and Hindu religious items are dumped on a bank of the heavily polluted and semi-dry Yamuna River next to the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • A young bride is taking a moment inside the Taj Mahal complex overlooking the heavily polluted Yamuna River, in Agra.
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  • Brij Khandelwal, a renown environmental journalist for the Times of India, is walking on a bank of the heavily polluted Yamuna River, in Agra, opposite the Taj Mahal complex.
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  • A young boy is walking on the hilltop surrounding the tannery area of Jajmau,<br />
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, located on the most polluted stretch of the mighty Ganges River.
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  • A balloon vendor is pushing his cart along the streets of Agra near the Taj Mahal.
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  • Women are collecting water contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides from a hand-pump on the streets of Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008.
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  • A group of slum dwellers on the hills surrounding the tannery area of Jajmau are busy collecting fresh water being provided to the colony daily by the government in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The inhabitants are complaining that too little water is provided for the large population of the area, while in case of power cuts, a very common event in Kanpur, the pumping station can shut down completely for days at the time. Rows and arguments over water collection here are an unfortunate daily reality.
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  • A young girl from Joana, pop. 1800, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is standing in front of her house. The inhabitants of the village are affected by the wastewater originated from the nearby Jajmau Industrial Area, the largest leather producing hub in India, discharging directly into the holy Ganges River.
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  • A young boy is removing contaminated water from a bath after the process of liming, the removal of hair and impurities with the use of water and various agents, in an illegal tannery unit inside Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Children are largely employed to work on scraps, or little pieces of skin, like the head and the ears of the animal, which will become a small bag, a wallet, or maybe a cheap phone leather case.
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  • M. C. Mehta, the famous Indian environmental lawyer, is playing with his dogs in his ashram in Dehradun, a hill station in the northern state of Uttarakhand.
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  • A number of damaged parts, sloppy restoration work, stone decay and other oddities can be seen all around the Taj Mahal complex, on both red sandstone and Markana marble.
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  • Doli, 5, (middle) from the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river, is shaking in the arms of her father, on Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2008. Doli is affected by a neurological disorder since birth. Doctors believe her condition to be associated to water contaminated with alarming levels of pesticides and heavy metals the family is drinking on an everyday basis. Her skull is underdeveloped and she has serious cognitive limitations that have left her unable to frequent school or carry on any sort of educational activity. The family is now using a nearby governmental hand-pump that provides better quality water in comparison to the 20ft deep private one they priory used.
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  • A child is sewing parts of what will be leather articles, inside a medium-size manufacturing unit in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
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  • A labourer is moving a heavy load of half-processed leather destined to reach a new unit to complete another step of the production chain in Kanpu, Uttar Pradesh. In Jajmau Industrial Area the leather passes hand in hand many times before being ready for manufacturing stage. This 'outsourcing effect' creates a considerable risk for local underprivileged children to become involved in hazardous activities and subjected to exploitation.
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  • A boy is driving his bicycle in the mids of heavy traffic on the streets of Agra. The Taj Mahal has been struggling to keep in shape also because of the high levels of pollution in the city, mainly caused by congested roads and high levels of traffic, vehicles and an increasing population, in Agra.
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  • Relatives of a deceased person are purchasing wood at the traditional 'burning ghat' in Agra.
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  • Fragile Markana marble surrounds to the tombs of  Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, in the name of which the Taj Mahal mausoleum was also built and completed around the year 1653, in Agra.
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  • A man lying, supposedly drunk, in the middle of a congested junction is struggling under an incoming car. The car moved back and drove away. The Taj Mahal has been struggling to keep in shape also because of the high levels of pollution in the city, mainly caused by congested roads and high levels of traffic, vehicles and an increasing population, in Agra.
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  • Arun Kashap, 8, is taking a bath in a pool of water used for building purposes in Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008. Due to the heavy metal contamination of underground water sources, many of the residents are forced to walk 2-3 kilometres to reach a safer hand-pump, and those who are unable to do so, have to drink unsafe water which is the cause of many of the diseases affecting the local population.
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  • A boy living in Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is playing near one of the contaminated water pools that regularly forms in the slum, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008. Due to the heavy metal presence within underground water sources, many of the residents are forced to walk 2-3 kilometres to reach a safer hand-pump, and those who are unable to do so, have to drink the polluted water which is the cause of many of the diseases affecting the local population.
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  • Pratap Singh, 52, a farmer from the village of Saini, pop. 4000, Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is portrayed while cleaning the way to his irrigation pump next to a paper mill drain flowing directly into the Kali river (East) waters, on Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008. Pratap laments that the groundwater he was using for irrigation until one year ago has now finished and accuses the local industries to be taking it all for manufacturing products while discharging severely contaminated and untreated waters back into the environment. Not even after the monsoon season the village aquifers are able to fully recharge.
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  • Two labourers having a meal of boiled potatoes before beginning their daily work in one of the illegal dumping and burning grounds surrounding the area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. After being bathed in chromium and other chemicals to remove hair and impurities in a process called liming, the skins are examined by hand and the useless parts are cut and sent to one of these fields where they are boiled and reduced to a thin black dust. The resulting dark powder will then be used as a fertiliser or for the first stage of poultry food production.
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  • The owner of a small tannery in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is showing the leather just painted in their unit. Arrived from somewhere else, painted by the two children I have witnessed working here, it will depart to reach other hands, and later become an item for sale. In Jajmau this is a daily reality and an intervention is needed to curb the practice.
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  • Two men are moving a heavy load of half-processed leather using a severed horse pulling a wooden cart to a new plant for further processing in Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Knowing whether children were employed in the process is the real challenge when outsourcing leather in Kanpur.
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  • Workers in one of the larger tanneries within the Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, are stockpiling pieces of leather while trimming impurities and scraps before proceeding to colouring and finishing.
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  • Workers in one of the large tanneries located in Jajmau area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, are processing leather in chromium baths, or liming, while complying to little, if any, health and safety regulations.
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  • M. C. Mehta, the famous Indian environmental lawyer, is sitting in his home in Dehradun, a hill station in the northern state of Uttarakhand where he has also opened an ashram and study centre.
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  • M. C. Mehta, the famous Indian environmental lawyer, is standing in his home in Dehradun, a hill station in the northern state of Uttarakhand where he has also opened an ashram and study centre.
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  • A cycle rickshaw driver is taking a break on the streets of Agra. The Taj Mahal has been struggling to keep in shape also because of the high levels of pollution in the city, mainly caused by congested roads and high levels of traffic, vehicles and an increasing population, in Agra.
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  • A number of damaged parts, sloppy restoration work, stone decay and other oddities can be seen all around the Taj Mahal complex, on both red sandstone and Markana marble.
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  • Visitors are enjoying a day at the Taj Mahal building, in Agra.
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  • Children are playing on the fragile Markana marble of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Brij Khandelwal, a renown environmental journalist for the Times of India, is inspecting the damage and writing on a door inside the Taj Mahal complex.
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  • People are walking on the streets of Agra, next to a busy junction. The Taj Mahal has been struggling to keep in shape also because of the high levels of pollution in the city, mainly caused by congested roads and high levels of traffic, vehicles and an increasing population, in Agra.
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  • A vendor is selling Coca Cola on the streets of Agra. The Taj Mahal has been struggling to keep in shape also because of the high levels of pollution in the city, mainly caused by congested roads and high levels of traffic, vehicles and an increasing population, in Agra.
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  • A child is collecting useful items from scraps at the industrial area of Agra.
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  • A crowd of visitors is looking at the protected section of the Agra Fort where deposed Mughal emperor Shah Jahan lived while under house arrest on orders of his son Aurangzeb.
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  • Visitors with shoe-covers for the monument's own protection, are standing in front of a pool inside the Taj Mahal complex, in Agra.
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  • Women are adjusting their saris inside the main complex of the Taj Mahal, in Agra.
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  • Tourists are touching the low parts of Markana marble, slowly turning dark and dirty, inside the Taj Mahal complex, in Agra.
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  • Visitors overlooked by Indian police officers are making their way to the Taj Mahal building and tombs, in Agra.
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  • Visitors are walking towards the Taj Mahal building, in Agra.
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  • Rakesh, 25, from the village of Chandenamal, pop. 1500, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Krishni river, is sitting on a bed in front of his house, on Saturday, Apr. 29, 2008. Rakesh has been diagnosed a neurological disorder since one and a half years; it has left his legs and left hand almost paralysed while his cognitive skills have been severely affected. He can now walk only with the help of metal crutches and cannot carry on any sort of work or activity. Doctors believe his condition to be associated to the water contaminated with alarming levels of pesticides and heavy metals the family is drinking on an everyday basis.
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  • A truck driver and his co-workers are preparing to deliver their load of sugarcane inside the Daurala Sugar Works industrial complex, near Daurala village, Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Monday, Apr. 14, 2008. Sugarcane-related manufactories, like sugar mills and distilleries rank between the 17 most polluting industries by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests and special conditions apply to the release of their wastewaters back into the environment. If Daurala Sugar Works, whose drain reaches the Kali river (East), have implemented a fairly efficient Effluent Treatment Plant, many in the sugarcane-rich area have not, and keep releasing contaminated water into nearby rivers. Even if levels of pollutants are believed to be largely reduced at the Complex, the Kali river (East) cannot absorb any more amount of wastewaters and its situation remains critically unhealthy.
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  • A young girl from the village of Beghrajpur, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is collecting grass for her family's buffaloes from the banks of a large drain originating from the Beghrajpur Industrial Complex, mainly composed of chemical factories, a few hundred meters upstream, on Sunday, Mar. 30, 2008. The white drain, completely covered in foam, will reach the Kali river (East) in Usampur Bhopara village. At the end of its journey, the watercourse will eventually join the largest Ganges river injecting a deadly dose of pollutants into its Holy waters.
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  • Workers are collecting sand to be used in construction works from the bed of the severely polluted Hindon river, near the village of Barnawa, pop. 6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2008. A full cart will be sold for about 100 Rs (USD 2).
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  • A young boy, walking the streets of Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, stops to eat a candy near one of the contaminated water pools that regularly forms in the slum, on Monday, Mar. 17, 2008. Due to the heavy metal contamination of underground water sources, many of the residents are forced to walk 2-3 kilometres to reach a safer hand-pump, and those who are unable to do so, have to drink unsafe water which is the cause of many of the diseases affecting the local population.
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  • A truck driver and his co-workers are waiting to deliver their load of sugarcane inside the Daurala Sugar Works industrial complex, near Daurala village, Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Monday, Apr. 14, 2008. Sugarcane-related manufactories, like sugar mills and distilleries rank between the 17 most polluting industries by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests and special conditions apply to the release of their wastewaters back into the environment. If Daurala Sugar Works, whose drain reaches the Kali river (East), have implemented a fairly efficient Effluent Treatment Plant, many in the sugarcane-rich area have not, and keep releasing contaminated water into nearby rivers. Even if levels of pollutants are believed to be largely reduced at the Complex, the Kali river (East) cannot absorb any more amount of wastewaters and its situation remains critically unhealthy... ..
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  • Students from the Laksha Grawha Ashram are bathing in a pool using groundwater that will later be devoted to irrigation in the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river, on Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008.
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  • Rubina, 12, is helping her mother to separate some wheat grain from its chaffs in their home in the village of Barnawa, pop.6000, Baghpat District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located along the banks of the severely polluted Hindon river on Friday, Apr. 18, 2008. Rubina was born with a neurological disorder that have left her cognitive skills gravely affected. The family laments that their 80 ft deep private hand-pump is delivering yellow-coloured water that smells and tastes differently from fresh water, although they continue drinking it as they have no means of collecting safer water on a daily basis.
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  • A man is bathing in the polluted Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, at dawn. Sustaining life for thousands of years along the Indo-Gangetic plains, the river's ecosystem is in grave danger of being damaged beyond repair.
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  • Koren, 5, is one of three children presenting a similar neurological disorder and living on the same road in Joana village, pop. 1800, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He is portrayed while in the arms of his father. The village is located onto a series of drains joining the Ganges River nearby and the community is entirely.reliant on the poisonous groundwater. Koren has serious cognitive limitations while his body's right side is affected by a semi-paralysis and muscular defection. His family cannot afford even a rudimental medication.
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