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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.