World Water Crisis
Christopher Brown / Redux
Pipeline
Because water in Mumbai, India is prohibitively expensive, many residents of this slum rely on leaks found or created in the massive tubes that carry water to more affluent neighborhoods. The poor of the city avoid the garbage and human waster surrounding their dwellings by walking on top of the pipelines.
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