Indore has woken up to a nightmare of its own making. Drinking water turned into poison, homes into sick wards, and a neighbourhood into a zone of mourning. At least ten lives have been officially acknowledged as lost, among them a six-month-old infant, whose birth came after a decade of waiting. Hundreds are battling for recovery in hospitals, thousands have fallen ill, and fear now flows through the taps where water once did.

Negligence, not nature, behind the tragedy

This catastrophe was not caused by nature’s fury or fate’s cruelty. It was engineered by human negligence and sustained by official indifference. What makes the tragedy even more damning is its sheer banality. A sewage line from a newly built toilet was allowed to come in contact with the city’s main drinking water........

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