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Water from a handpump seen yellow as land nearby\/beneath suffers from heavy metal contamination with highly toxic hexavalent chromium at Shivnathpura Village situated in the Akbarpur tehsil of Kanpur Dehat district in Uttar Pradesh.
\n | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap<\/p>\n
Patches of earth streaked a fluorescent greenish-yellow flank of National Highway 19 that connects the Kanpur Nagar and Fatehpur districts in Uttar Pradesh. Off the highway, a culvert also has yellow leaching on it. On the dirt road towards Chhiwali village in Fatehpur, the markings persist.\u00a0They lead to Daya Devi\u2019s home, down a mud path.<\/p>\n
Land suffers from heavy metal contamination, as hazardous basic chrome sulphate sludge has been dumped in the area, turning the soil yellow near Chhiwali Village in the Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh.
\n | Photo Credit:
\n Shashi Shekhar Kashyap<\/p>\n
Part of the concrete roof of 40-year-old Devi\u2019s two-room house is falling in. That\u2019s not her only problem, though. The mother of two children is more worried about her stomach pains and digestion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Land nearby and beneath the road suffers from heavy metal contamination, as hazardous basic chrome sulphate sludge has been dumped in the area leaching into groundwater and contaminating hand pumps with highly toxic hexavalent chromium and making soil yellow near Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
\n | Photo Credit:
\n Shashi Shekhar Kashyap<\/p>\n