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The Guardian - UK
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Penelope MacRae in Delhi

Sewage in drinking water blamed for at least 10 deaths in India’s ‘cleanest city’

Motorbikes and people crossing the street in Indore in India
Indore has been ranked India’s ‘cleanest city’ for the last eight years. Photograph: Mahesh Dutt Sharma/Alamy

Sewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 others to hospital in Indore, ranked India’s “cleanest city” for the last eight years.

Residents of a congested, lower-income neighbourhood in Indore, Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital, had been warning authorities for months about foul-smelling tap water. Their complaints went unheeded, despite the city’s much-lauded ranking for waste segregation and other cleanliness measures.

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