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Fractured Water 1 - India

88 images Created 8 Feb 2021

Walking across Delhi to document the assault on the environement, from water to air.

"The stretch of the Yamuna river that flows through Delhi is only 2 percent of the river, but accounts for 80 percent of the river’s pollution. Because of the high level of pollution, authorities have instructed people not to wash their animals in the river."

Full Story here : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/160425-new-delhi-most-polluted-city-matthieu-paley
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  • Nasurudin Malik. Metal recycler in sector 51 in Noida.
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  • Nazir, reccyles religious garbages thrown off the bridge. Recyclers living below the old Iron Bridge.
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  • Recyclers kids living below the old Iron Bridge, going through garbages thrown off the bridge, to find pieces that can be given to recycle shops - mostly from religious garbages.
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  • Air and water pollution in Delhi on a winter day. Shahadra drain.
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  • Air pollution in Delhi on a winter day.
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  • Construction projects next to open sewage.
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  • Umesh, a recycler from Uttar Pradesh, approaching Delhi. He uses his bicycle for carrying the trash that he picks up along the road. He sits on his cycle when the road goes downhill, otherwise he walks beside it.<br />
Utta Pradesh Province.
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  • A sewage drain, so filled with years of garbages that one can actually walk on top of it. A boy goes to look for plastic and paper. Area inhabited by recyclers (Kabari) in Noida (around sector 16), on the border with Delhi.
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  • Industrial waste with all toxic chemicals has caused formation of foam over the drain.<br />
The Shahadra open air sewer in Noida, when it exits Delhi. Authorities have proclaimed the drainage waters too dirty to wash animals in it.
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  • Kids come to look for floating garbages such as plastic bottles, plastic bags etc. They will make few rupees per day by giving it to a shop that send it to recycling plants. The Shahadra open air sewer in Noida, when it exits Delhi. Authorities have proclaimed the drainage waters too dirty to wash animals in it.
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  • Construction projects next to open sewage.
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  • Shortly before the arrival of the monsoon, the flood plains around the Yamuna are dry. Some old ponds are used to play and wash.
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  • The Barapullah sewer drainage, as it exits directly into the Yamuna. Construction site as well. <br />
Authorities have proclaimed the drainage waters too dirty to wash animals in it - yet buffaloes wash in it. Their milk is collected for human consumption.
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  • A cremation on the Yamuna river, a holy river to Hinduism. Ashes are thrown in the river.
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  • Traffic in Delhi.
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  • Land is cultivated next to the sewer drainage and used for irrigation. Kids are swimming in it.
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  • Near the Shamshan Ghat. Sanjay, a Hindu man come to offer their prayers (Kundalini) to the Yamuna.
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  • A recycler / drug user come to look for pieces of metal and coins thrown in the river by hindu believers. Near the Shamshan Ghat.
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  • A recycler / drug user come to look for pieces of metal and coins thrown in the river by hindu believers. Near the Shamshan Ghat.
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  • Near the Shamshan Ghat. Hindu come to offer their prayers to the Yamuna.
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  • Kids collect and recycle garbage below the Old Iron Bridge, on the polluted Yamuna river.
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  • Recyclers kids living below the old Iron Bridge, going through garbages thrown off the bridge, to find pieces that can be given to recycle shops - mostly from religious garbages.
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  • Guru Ramnat Gi doing his evening puja prayers on the banks of the polluted Yamuna, near Nigambodh Gath.
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  • Kunal. A school for learning Kushti (an ancient sport similar to wrestling) nearby the Nigambodh Gath, on the banks of the polluted Yamuna.
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  • A school for learning Kushti (an ancient sport similar to wrestling) nearby the Nigambodh Gath, on the banks of the polluted Yamuna.
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