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Leather Industry Pollution - Kanpur, india

Smoke billows from a chimney on the premises of a leathery tannery factory. The city of Kanpur is now India's largest exporter of leather products. Sever air and water pollution now affect the city and are causing health problems for residents and the degradation of the local Ganges River ecology.

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Contained in galleries: The Toxic Price of Leather - Kanpur, India [2013]

Smoke billows from a chimney on the premises of a leathery tannery factory. The city of Kanpur is now India's largest exporter of leather products. Sever air and water pollution now affect the city and are causing health problems for residents and the degradation of the local Ganges River ecology.