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Photography of the Infrastructure
Figure 1 is a photo of trash collecting on the side of the road, next to a slum area in Jaisalmer. Jaisalmer as well as other cities in Rajasthan has open swears, meaning there are gutters that line the city streets that are purley holes in the ground, they stretch for miles and follow the sides of the roads, and eventually dump to huge areas like this, and collect.
Figure 2 is a photo of the open sewers you find in the city streets. Often times the stone that makes up the walkways becomes eroded, and the sewer water can spread out, and collect under the tiles, and on the side. Trash often collects and sits here.
These two figures are clear examples of sources of water bourne diseases such as ecoli in residential streets.
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Figure 4 is a photo of the open sewers in the old city of Jodphur. The water was flowing south, because these roads were slanted. Grates are placed over the gaps so people can walk over them safley. Often times, people just dump trash here, assuming that it will eventually be carried away by the water, however this leads to blockage and improper run off. There were lots of bugs circulating about 2 inches above the water, and it smelled foul.
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Figure 3 is a photo I took while walking through the streets of Jodphur. She is washing her clothes in a rubber basin, using the street's water supply. Each street has a pump, such as the one seen in the left of the photo. This pump provides clean water from the local resevoirs, and residents use it to wash their clothes, fill buckets with to store for drinking water, or to bathe. This woman lived a few houses down from the pump, and explained that this is part of her daily routine.
