Tag: toxicity

Life saving equipment a dream for sewage workers

 
/ September 27, 2011

Imagine walking around on a hot, humid summer day. You feel sweaty, tired, and dehydrated. Now imagine if you were unblocking sewers full of human excrement with your bare hands in such heat. Sewer cleaners in Walhe village of Maharashtra continue to work with human waste, refuse, and toxic fumes...

Resisting Exploitation In The Maximum City

 
/ July 26, 2011

In Mumbai, workers employed by the biggest biomedical waste treatment factory are on strike, demanding better work conditions.

Plastic Industry, Toxic Concerns

 
/ May 4, 2011

Malegaon’s booming illegal plastic industry causes illness and injury amongst its workers.

TB Kills In Punjab’s Dirty Slum

 
/ March 14, 2011

A tuberculosis epidemic is spreading in Durga colony, Ludhiana, while health care remains scarce.