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The methyl iso cyanate plant in the overgrown
remains of the Union Carbide factory viewed across the roofs
of a slum it continues to poison. |
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A recent Greenpeace report found that the abandoned
Union Carbide factory is poisoning the ground water that
supplies the surrounding slums. Most residents still use the pumps
that draw this water since the alternative is a long walk at least
twice a day. |
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A recent Greenpeace report found that the abandoned
Union Carbide factory is poisoning the ground water that supplies
the surrounding slums. Most residents still use the pumps that draw
this water since the alternative is a long walk at least twice a
day. |
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A recent Greenpeace report found that the abandoned
Union Carbide factory is poisoning the ground water that is used
by the surrounding slums. Most residents still use the pumps that
draw this water, despite being warned of the dangers, since the
alternative is a long walk at least twice a day. |
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The slums surrounding the factory are being poisoned
even though they lay upwind from the factory on the night of the
disaster. |
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Government housing supplied to families who lost
their main breadwinner (usually the husband) in the 1984 disaster
known locally as the Widows' Colony. In 1998 eight people died here
from decease caused by sewage contaminating that water supply. Many
of the residents complain of poor conditions and the corrupt house
allocation. |
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Aruna holds a picture of her farther, Pyarelal, who
died in 1997 from symptoms caused by exposure to the gas in 1984.
He had saved her by leading her towards the factory whereas many
who died had run away from the factory, the direction in which the
gas was travelling. The family sold everything they had to pay for
his treatment and due to the corrupt issuing of housing in the widows'
colony they have to sublet. Aruna's first child was still born and
she receives expensive treatment for anaemia and fatigue, she lost
a brother and sister on the night of the disaster. |
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Krishna Bi (in green), the leader of the Gas Pidet
Mahila Stationery (GPMS) workers. The stationery unit was set up
to give women who survived the disaster in 1984 work, they make
stationary for the state government. The stationary workers continue
the fight for justice and also for employment rights that are equal
to those enjoyed by government stationery workers who were not effected
by the gas. |
