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A baby nurses an adult water buffalo that went beserk in its owners truck and severed both of its horns, Kharekhari village, Rajasthan, India. The animal is too dangerous for anyone to attempt to help it in this state.
Women bathe in the Ganges River. Their feet are yellow because they've been covered in Turmeric to prevent infection from the heavily polluted water in the Ganges, Tulsi Ghat, Varanasi, India.
Boys herding goats make chai tea by filling a plastic water bottle with water from a creek, milk from their goat, and tea from their pocket, then boling it over a fire. Bedhnath temple area, Rajasthan, India.
Foamy, dirty water in an unnamed creek near Bantala and Dhapa, Kolkata, India. The area is home to the main landfill for Kolkata, and a large number of small recycling operations, as well as leather incinerators. Pollution in the area is extreme.
A mother gives her boy a drink at a clinic operated by Calcutta Kids (calcuttakids.org) in Howrah, India
Foamy, dirty water in an unnamed creek near Bantala and Dhapa, Kolkata, India. The area is home to the main landfill for Kolkata, and a large number of small recycling operations, as well as leather incinerators. Pollution in the area is extreme.
A table with apples used in prayer rituals sits in the waters of the Bay of Bangal on the beach at the Gangasagar Mela, Sagar Island, India.
Animal dung (cow or water buffalo) patties dry on the ghats of Varanasi, India. They will be used for fuel for cooking and warmth.
Animal dung (cow or water buffalo) patties dry on the ghats of Varanasi, India. They will be used for fuel for cooking and warmth.
Foamy, dirty water in an unnamed creek near Bantala and Dhapa, Kolkata, India. The area is home to the main landfill for Kolkata, and a large number of small recycling operations, as well as leather incinerators. Pollution in the area is extreme.
Children walk on a country road alongside a large water buffalo in the rural village of Kharekhari, Rajasthan, India
Foamy, dirty water in an unnamed creek near Bantala and Dhapa, Kolkata, India. The area is home to the main landfill for Kolkata, and a large number of small recycling operations, as well as leather incinerators. Pollution in the area is extreme.
A decaying brick wall in water, in a construction area in the East Kolkata Wetlands near Dhapa, Kolkata, India.
With invasive water hyacinth in the foreground, fishermen gather around a fire on a cold winter morning, in the town of Chingrihata, East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India.
Sunset over open water and palm trees near Chingrihata, in the East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India.
Animal dung (cow or water buffalo) patties dry on the ghats of Varanasi, India. They will be used for fuel for cooking and warmth.
A fisherman in the East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India. They use the poles for propulsion and to scare up fish by beating the water.
A man bathes in foul water in the Ganges River near Scindhia Ghat, Varanasi, India. Trash is routinely dumped in the river.
Fisherman on open water on a foggy winter morning in the East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India. Direct from the camera. No post-processing.
Foamy, dirty water in an unnamed creek near Bantala and Dhapa, Kolkata, India. The area is home to the main landfill for Kolkata, and a large number of small recycling operations, as well as leather incinerators. Pollution in the area is extreme.
A decaying brick wall in water, in a construction area in the East Kolkata Wetlands near Dhapa, Kolkata, India.
A metal water vessel sits in desert sand next to a campfire at the Pushkar Camel Mela, Pushkar, India.
A man loads water from a small lake onto a bicycle cart in the Maidan (a large park) in Kolkata, India.
A man loads water from a small lake onto a bicycle cart in the Maidan (a large park) in Kolkata, India.
Men bathe at a public spigot on a street in Newmarket, Kolkata, India. For a visitor to India such practices - commonplace and completely ordinary in India - represent a clear cultural difference.
A man fills up bottles of water with unfiltered tap water to sell, in Dharavi, by most account the most crowded square mile on Earth, with about a million people. Water is rationed by the government of Mumbai and is subject to random restrictions and the performance of monsoon rains.
Typical water quality in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, likely the most crowded square mile on Earth with about a million people. Some of the public canals are used as a latrine, and a dense concentration of small factories discharge chemicals into the water.
Water dances on colored lights at a public fountain at Princep Ghat along the Hooghly River, Kolkata, India.
Mumbai, India is a concrete jungle, set amidst steamy tropical forest and mangroves, tiny remnants of which can be seen even in the heart of downtown, like this scene at a squatter's camp near Dharavi slums.
Foul water in the Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India. Toilets open directly to the canals in some parts of Dharavi.