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  • Two workers, in charge of gathering the cocoa harvest, are walking next to a big shade tree, in the plantation of Claudio Corallo on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Two workers in charge of gathering the cocoa harvest, are walking next to a big shade tree in the plantation of Claudio Corallo, on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Two workers, in charge of gathering the cocoa harvest, are walking next to a big shade tree, in the plantation of Claudio Corallo on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A young agricultural labourer is harvesting wheat in a field near the village of Shamli, pop. 1500, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located dangerously near to Shamli Paper Mill, (visible in the background) a large industry discharging untreated wastewaters a few steps away from the field, on Friday, Apr. 18, 2008. Feru, 70, the owner of the field is forced to feed its crops water from the mill's drain. "We own this land since more than 200 years, while this factory was erected in 1981," he adds, "we filed many complains to the MP offices in both Meerut and Lucknow but nobody in the government listens to us. We are not important to them." He also laments that "the soil is becoming defective, and so are our crops whose yield is diminishing year after year."
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  • An agricultural labourer is harvesting sugarcane in a field near 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. Labourers earn as little as 50-60 Rs (USD 1) for a hard day of work in the fields.
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  • Agricultural labourers are threshing wheat after having it harvested and collected during the past few days, in a filed near the affected 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. Labourers earn as little as 50-60 Rs (USD 1) for a hard day of work in the fields.
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  • Children living in Roça Ribeira Funda are making and playing with wood carts, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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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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  • 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 young man is walking near an old Portuguese house in Claudio Corallo's Nova Moca plantation, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A local festival called ‘Tragedy’ is taking place in the village of Santo Amaro on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Claudio Corallo is showing a handful of cocoa drying on a wood desiccator in the technical area of his plantation on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A woman is walking on the road leading to Pico Maria Fernandes, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A fisherman is rowing on his boat near the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • The priest of the local evangelical church ‘Assembly of God’ is talking to people attending Sunday morning mass on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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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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  • Residents of Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, are showing the contaminated yellow-coloured water from one of the hand-pumps many residents use as the only source for drinking and washing, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008.
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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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  • In the evening Claudio Corallo rests in his house and plantation on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Claudio Corallo is following production orders of coffee and chocolate in his laboratory on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Workers are selecting raisins that Claudio Corallo uses for his varieties of chocolates with alcoholic distillates, while in his laboratory on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A worker is picking fresh coffee beans in the Nova Moca plantation of Claudio Corallo, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A local festival called ‘Tragedy’ is taking place in the village of Santo Amaro on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Children are playing inside the old hospital of Roça Agostinho Neto, where they now live with their families, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Fishermen are working near the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • The chocolate produced by Claudio Corallo is being spread on a tray in his laboratory on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Claudio Corallo is looking after one of the groups of tourists that every week visit his laboratory to taste his amazing products, and to learn more about his unique types of coffee and chocolate, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • The island of Principe is being overflown by a small plane that connects it with Sao Tome, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A girl is standing by near her home in Roça Agua Ize', on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A local festival called ‘Tragedy’ is taking place in the village of Santo Amaro on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A worker is selecting toasted cocoa, during the last process before it becomes chocolate, in the technical area of Claudio Corallo's Nova Moca plantation, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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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 woman is covering her eyes during a sandstorm, in the heavily polluted city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, the largest leather production hub in India.
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  • Labourers are collecting and dividing the thin black dust obtained by boiling leather scraps in one of the many dumping and burning grounds near the tannery area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. This dust is the first process to fertilisers and chicken food.
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  • A worker in one of the tannery units within the industrial area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is pulling a large piece of leather from a chromium bath, where the skin has had hair and impurities removed in a process called liming, to be dried outside the factory.
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  • An elder and a young boy are using their bare hands to collect skins from a bath of contaminated water during the process of liming, removing hair and impurities with the use of various agents, in an illegal tannery unit located within the industrial area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
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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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  • A young boy is collecting skins from a bath during 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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  • Pardip, a 12-year-old boy from Simlana village, pop.4000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is leaning on a government-installed hand-pump, on Saturday, Mar. 29, 2008. Pardip developed a neurological disease due to the long-term effects of consuming contaminated water at the age of two. His family and him still regularly use the same 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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  • A drain from a local paper mill is pouring wastewaters back into the surrounding environment by the banks of the Kali river (East) in Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008.
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  • Children residing in Jaibheem Nagar, pop. 10000, a large slum located near the banks of the Kali river (East), Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India, are in line to receive water and other goods from a governmental agency that provides essentials to the poorest residents once a week, 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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  • Amnoor, a 5-year-old boy from Simlana village, pop.4000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is being washed by his father using contaminated water delivered by their private hand-pump, on Sunday, Mar. 30, 2008. Amnoor was diagnosed a nervous damage due to the long-term effects of consuming unsafe water at the age of three. Before that he even used to run and was very healthy. Now, his reality is a semi-paralysis to both his left arm and leg. The family, whose only breadwinner is Vinod, 35, an agricultural labour, had to incur in a Rs 30000 (USD 600) expense for Amnoor's first treatment at the PGA Hospital in Chandigarth, Punjab, and in more than Rs 1000 (USD 12) a month for the cost of his medicines. With an average daily wage of Rs 50-60 and two more children to provide for, Vinod is facing a dire economic situation.
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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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  • Sakib, 7, from the Patanpura Colony, Saharanphur District, is leading his buffalo out of the Dhamola river, a severely polluted small-size watercourse, in reality more similar to a drain, that joins the Hindon river a few kilometres downstream, on Friday, Apr. 18, 2008. Sakib regularly comes here with his family to wash their buffaloes and provide them water to drink, unaware of the consequences the contamination could have on himself and his animals.
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  • A fisherman is rowing on his boat near the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Fishermen are looking for banks of fish near the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • The island of Principe is being overflown by a small plane that connects it with Sao Tome, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • People living in the old hospital of Roça Agostinho Neto are walking down the stairs leading to their rooms, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A dog is walking next to a house of Roça Agostinho Neto, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Claudio Corallo is portrayed by the entrance of his house on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Workers are turning cocoa that is drying on a wood desiccator in the technical area of Claudio Corallo’s plantation on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Workers are selecting and bagging fresh coffee beans in the Nova Moca plantation of Claudio Corallo, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A man is wearing a Barack Obama t-shirt while standing around a fish market in Praia Cruz, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • At sunrise, fishermen are preparing their nets before venturing into the sea with their boat in Praia Cruz, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Different stamps used for the products of Claudio Corallo are exposed in his laboratory on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A worker is turning cocoa beans brewing in the technical area of the Claudio Corallo’s plantation on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • One of the cocoa varieties that are growing in Claudio Corallo’s plantation on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A worker is picking cocoa in the plantation of Claudio Corallo on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Youngsters are diving into the sea near Claudio Corallo’s home on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Sitting next to an open beer, a mother is tying her draught’s braids in a small market area on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Children living in Roça Ribeira Funda are standing around at sunset, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A worker is picking cocoa in the plantation of Claudio Corallo on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Claudio Corallo is feeling the aromas released from a handful of cocoa that is drying on a wood desiccator in the technical area of his plantation on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • In the evening Claudio Corallo rests in his house and plantation on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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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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  • Agricultural labourers are collecting water devoted to irrigation from pools forming on the side of the polluted Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, near Jajmao Industrial Area. Sustaining life for thousands of years along the Indo-Gangetic plains, the river's ecosystem is in grave danger of being damaged beyond repair while crops absorb the contaminants from the water and pass it on to those consuming the vegetables grown in this area.
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  • A child with a neurological disorder (2nd from left) is portrayed with his underprivileged family inside their rudimental home in Joana, pop. 1800, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a poor agricultural village affected by the tanneries' untreated water discharge in the Ganges River.
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  • The polluted Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is seen at dawn from its banks, bordering the large tannery area of Jajmao. 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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  • A large drain is pouring municipal and industrial waste into the Ganges River near Jajmau Industrial Area, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Many drains are scattered around the area and discharge contaminated wastewater into the nearby river tainting underground reservoirs and endangering the fresh water supply of local people.
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  • Young workers are feeding a series of large boilers in an illegal dumping and burning ground located on the banks of the holy Ganges River near the tannery area of Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The scrap leather is destined to be boiled and reduced to a thin dust: the raw material for fertilisers and chicken food production.
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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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  • 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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  • A child labourer in one of the illegal tannery units inside Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is holding to the side of a pool while stepping on buffalo's skins inside a bath during the process of liming, the removal of hair and impurities with the use of water and various agents. Children are mostly employed on scraps, or little parts, like the head and the ears of the animal, which will become a small bag or maybe a cheap phone leather case.
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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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  • The blackened, contaminated waters of the Krishni river are photographed in the village of Chandenamal, pop. 1500, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Friday, Apr. 4, 2008.
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  • Sunita Kashap, 23, a housewife from the village of Bhanera Khemchand, pop. 2000, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, is portrayed while washing dishes near a hand-pump providing water contaminated with alarming levels of pesticides and heavy metals, on Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008. Sunita is affected by a cancer on her right eye that has started to develop about two years ago. Doctors believe its cause to be the unsafe water she is drinking on an everyday basis.
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  • Boys are playing on a road 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. 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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  • An elderly woman is bargaining the price of her vegetables with a local shop owner 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. As contamination endanger the yield of the fields, a large agricultiural country like India cannot keep up with production and demand thus fuelling the latest food inflation crises that has sparked riots in Haiti, Cameroon, Indonesia and Egypt and that has already plunged 100 millions people into poverty worldwide.
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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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  • Children belonging to Furkhan's family, a 35-year-old agricultural labourer living in the village of Shamli, pop. 1500, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India, located dangerously near to Shamli Paper Mill, are throwing stones into the drain running right at their doorstep, on Friday, Apr. 18, 2008. Originating from the untreated wastewaters of Sikka and Maruti paper mills, another two large factories in the area, this drain is a serious hazard to the health of the people residing in the surrounding area as well as for the environment. Furkahn laments that their house was built long before the drain started to flow, and even though he complained various times to the government in both Muzaffarnagar and Meerut, two large cities near the district, there has not been any tangible improvement to the situation.
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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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  • A worker is selecting toasted cocoa, during the last process before it becomes chocolate, in the technical area of Claudio Corallo's Nova Moca plantation, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Claudio Corallo is feeling the aromas released from a handful of cocoa that is drying on a wood desiccator in the technical area of his plantation on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Claudio Corallo is pruning a Liberian-quality coffee plant in his plantation on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • The island of Principe is being overflown by a small plane that connects it with Sao Tome, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A Ngembu bat is flying between trees in the plantation of Claudio Corallo on the island of Principe, in Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Two workers are getting paid in the technical area of the Nova Moca plantation of Claudio Corallo, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A local singer is entertaining guests at a trendy restaurant on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Children living in Roça Ribeira Funda are playing with wood carts, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Fishermen are trying to catch a bank of fish near the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Two girls are playing on the streets of Roça  Monte Café’, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A soccer game is being playing near the village of Treinidade Lamus, near the city of Sao Tome, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • With her child on the back, a young mother is walking the stairs up to their home in Roça Agua Ize', on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Children are playing inside the old hospital of Roça Agostinho Neto, where they now live with their families, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Fishermen are selling the fish caught in the morning, in Praia Cruz, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • A worker selecting raisins that Claudio Corallo uses for his varieties of chocolates with alcoholic distillates, while in his laboratory on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Workers are selecting and bagging coffee beans picked in the Nova Moca plantation of Claudio Corallo, on the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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  • Children living inside the old hospital of Roça Agostinho Neto, are playing on the streets of the island of Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, (STP) a former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
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