Life in the world's most polluted city

From the sky to the ground, anywhere in Delhi (India) is also suffocating by the atmosphere of pollution and rubbish everywhere.

According to data from the World Health Organization in 2014, Delhi, the land consisting of India's capital New Delhi, is the most polluted area in the world.

The industrial parks nearby discharged chemical waste into the Yamuna River, causing the river to whiten with a toxic foam.The Yamuna River flows along the Indian country, providing not only water for 57 million people but also for many Hindu followers.People of all ages bathe and drink water from the Yamuna River because they believe that the river water will erase their sins.

A man and a boy bathed in Yamuna River.Although it only accounts for 2% of the total length of the Yamuna River, but the passage through Delhi is the most polluted place, so the local authorities have asked people not to put cattle in the river to bathe.

The men battered clothes in a puddle next to the bathing area of ​​the cattle;then they raked out at Yamuna River.

"Clean laundry" will be exposed under the overpass, next to a waste dump.

The poor in India often have no choice but to live next to the open sewage channels in Noida - a city on the edge of New Delhi.

People bathed and drank water on the steps in front of the Nizamuddin Sufi temple in Delhi.In the past, people often came here to scoop clean water for living, but now the water source is polluted like many other places in the city.

To ensure health, the man must wrap himself around a curtain to avoid mosquitoes when sleeping.Diseases such as dengue fever are always a threat to people living along the Yamuna River and sewage channels.

Although the water is heavily polluted, the boy still lapsed into the Yamuna River to search for religious objects, from coins to metal figurines, which people often throw down.
These items will then be sold to recycling shops.To earn a living, not only adults but also children have to collect scrap materials in landfills or big rivers.

Another girl is also looking for plastic scraps at a large landfill in Bhalswa.If you're lucky, a scrap collector can earn 1000 rupees ($ 15) a day.

After a day of collecting scraps, he enlisted in the leaked water pipe, near the landfill he was working on.

Meanwhile, some other children play happily at Yamuna River.

The village in northern Delhi is at the foot of an open landfill.Garbage kept burning smoldering, forming a cloud of smoke covering the village day and night.

Burning garbage and waste is one of the main causes of air pollution in Delhi.