{"id":114016,"date":"2023-05-08T07:56:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-choking-on-sewage-and-waste\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:56:51","slug":"diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-choking-on-sewage-and-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-choking-on-sewage-and-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Diseases, mosquitoes, filth\u2019: India\u2019s urban centres are choking on sewage and waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114016\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nIndia is set to overtake China as the most populous country in the world but millions are now living with disease and pollution. As India\u2019s population grows, sewage and waste infrastructure is struggling to keep up. The country was projected to overtake China as the most populous in the world at the end of April with almost 1.43 billion people, according to the United Nations. Its urban centres are set to explode with more than 270 million people living in India\u2019s cities by 2040. But sewers are already struggling to keep up. Government figures for 2020 to 2021 show that of the 72 billion litres currently generated in urban centres, 45 billion litres &#8211; enough to fill 18,000 Olympic swimming pools &#8211; aren\u2019t treated.<\/p>\n<p>And two-thirds of urban homes aren\u2019t connected to India\u2019s sewerage system. Together with huge amounts of emissions from industrial processes, this waste is polluting waterways, causing disease, killing wildlife and seeping into the groundwater. Mohammed Azhar lives in the Delhi neighbourhood of Seelampur where open gutters are filled with plastic and grey-coloured water. \u201cWe are just surviving here. There&#8217;s smell, pollution, everything. We are in trouble because there is no cleanliness,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are diseases, mosquitoes, filth. Small children live here and they often get a fever, they fall sick. But no one is here to look after us.\u201d Khalil Ahmad, another Seelampur resident, says all the main drains flow into the sewer &#8211; \u201cincluding waste from toilets\u201d. \u201cAll the wastewater is collected in this sewer but they never clean it completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>India has made major progress in reducing child mortality but diarrhoea remains a leading killer. It is mostly caused by contaminated water and food with more than 55,000 children under five dying of diarrhoea in 2019, according to a recent study. Delhi\u2019s Yamuna River is one of the world\u2019s filthiest waterways and is considered \u2018ecologically dead\u2019 in some places. But people still take ritual baths and wash clothes in it. According to the World Bank, India is one of the most \u201cwater-stressed\u201d countries in the world with falling water tables and increasingly erratic monsoon seasons. In 2019, Chennai nearly ran out of water and other cities could be in a similar situation in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/05\/07\/diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-choking-on-sewage-and-waste\"> Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-choking-on-sewage-and-waste\/\">\u2018Diseases, mosquitoes, filth\u2019: India\u2019s urban centres are choking on sewage and waste<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,9878,1165,9879,445],"class_list":["post-114016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-idia","tag-sewage","tag-urbancentre","tag-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}