'Mumbai is on the verge of imploding'

The Guardian

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"Some 7,000 metric tonnes of refuse is spewed out each day. Around 7.5 million commuters cram themselves into local trains every day. There are around 700,000 cars on the road causing untold congestion, air and noise pollution. Toxic nitric oxide and nitrogen oxide levels stand at more than three times the safe limit. There’s less than 0.03 acres of open space per 1,000 people. The global norm is four; London has a profligate 12. We are the world’s eighth most-populated city – and dying to prove it."

'Mumbai is on the verge of imploding'

Residents of this overburdened and polluted megacity are held hostage by a politician-builder nexus that allows rampant ‘development’ to fuel its descent into urban hell

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