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India dumps enough untreated sewage each day to fill 18,000 Olympic-sized pools: ‘it stinks’
- Untreated sewage causes disease and deaths from diarrhoea among children, as it pollutes waterways, kills wildlife and seeps into the groundwater
- If dealt with properly it could be a ‘powerful weapon’ to help water-stressed India avert a looming water crisis, environmentalists say
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Published: 12:18pm, 3 May, 2023
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Resident Khalil Ahmad gestures next to a storm drain clogged with sewage and garbage in the Seelampur neighbourhood of New Delhi. He said the filth keeps making children in the area sick. Photo: AFP
Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, testament to
India’s failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage.
“We stay inside our homes. We fall sick if we go out,” the 21-year-old said in the New Delhi neighbourhood of Seelampur, where open gutters packed with plastic and sickly greyish water flow alongside the narrow lanes.
“It stinks. It attracts mosquitoes. We catch diseases and the kids keep falling sick,” he added. “There is no one to clean the filth.”