Pictures: the World’s Most Polluted City

Nearby industries dump their chemical waste into the Yamuna, which has left the river blanketed in toxic foam.

A village in northern Delhi sits below an open air rubbish dump. The dump is constantly burning, creating haze at all hours.

Impoverished people in India often have no housing options other than living next to open sewers, like this one in Noida, a city on the border of New Delhi.

A young girl and her neighbours are among those whose families who have lived along the Shahadra sewer for years. The accumulating rubbish has grown progressively worse, making daily life increasingly more difficult.

Men bleach laundry before rinsing it in the polluted Yamuna River.

Freshly bleached clothes hang to dry below an overpass in Delhi, next to an open sewer.

A young boy climbs the side of his house, which is part of the neighbourhood situated along the Shahadra open sewer.

A man works in a factory that dyes blue jeans in Silampur district, one of the most polluted and densely populated parts of Delhi.

A boy and his father make a home underneath an overpass in Delhi. They will look through trash for pieces of metal to recycle for money.

A dairy farm sits between a massive construction project and a rubbish dump. Livestock is regularly in contact with waste, increasing the risk of contaminated dairy products.

Delhi residents bathe and perform ablutions from the steps of the Nizamuddin Sufi shrine in Delhi. These steps used to be the spot where people would collect freshwater, but it’s now just as polluted as any other water source in the city.

A freshly cleaned stroller sits next to the Shahadra sewer, where many impoverished citizens of Delhi make their homes.