Mumbai Is Being Buried Under a Mountain of Its Own Trash
The city of 18.4 million people is running out of space for its waste
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A memorable scene in the movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” set in Mumbai, depicts the boy hero plunging into a ghastly pool of liquid excrement.
Truth isn’t much stranger than fiction. The city of 18.4 million people is running out of space for its waste, and Deonar, Asia’s oldest and largest dumpsite, is bursting.