On World Environment Day, a glimpse of damage done to the Earth

A man walks through the garbage lying in the dumping ground at Uttan, Mumbai. (Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)

Published on: Jun 04, 2016 8:02 PM IST

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A man walks through the garbage lying in the dumping ground at Uttan, Mumbai. (Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)

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People walk over the filth that’s left back after a high tide at Versova beach. (Vidya Subramanian/HT Photo)

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A boy walks past the garbage at Mahim Beach. (Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

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Garbage skimmer skims out garbage from Yamuna. The first trash skimmer procured under the third Yamuna Action Plan (YAP). It has the capacity to pick up 10 tons of solid waste daily. (Ajay Aggarwal/HT Photo)

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Garbage takes a shape of hillocks at a dumping ground of Ranchi. (Diwakar Prasad/HT Photo)

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Girls get caught in high winds after a massive sandstorm; struggle to balance aluminum pots on their heads while returning after filling potable water from a pond about a kilometer from their home at Kumhari village, Rajasthan. (Himanshu Vyas/HT Photo)

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Girls get caught in high winds after a massive sandstorm; struggle to balance aluminum pots on their heads while returning after filling potable water from a pond about a kilometer from their home at Kumhari village, Rajasthan. (Himanshu Vyas/HT Photo)

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Illegal stone mining causing damage to hills and environment in Sahebgunj. (Parwaz Khan/HT Photo)

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The contour trenches dug up in Hathipawa hill in Jhabua as part of water conservation drive by the tribal. (Shankar Mourya/HT Photo)

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A child cycles near a trenching ground in Indore with his face covered to protect himself from the smoke. Children playing outside are a rare sight in the area as evenings are full of poisonous smoke and gasses in Indore. (Shankar Mourya/HT Photo)

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Since 2000, the chemicals, which flow out in the Thakurpur or Charrial Canal, from the nearby 5000 garment dyeing factories, mainly Jeans, are increasingly polluting the water and also the environment.Due to synthetic dye, colour of canal water has turned into deep blackish blue causing various kinds of airborne diseases. The water was earlier used for washing clothes and utensils by the residents and was also channelised into farmers’ fields for irrigation. (Samir Jana/HT Photo)

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A bike rider presses his foot on the silencer of a low floor AC bus infamous in the city for bellowing dense fumes at a traffic stop. (Himanshu Vyas/HT Photo)

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A Kashmiri man rows a Shikara in algae filled water in the interiors of Dal Lake. (Waseem Andrabi/HT Photo)

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Around 205 villagers of Rambon Bagdipara at Raghunathpur-II block in Purulia district dig a canal and a catchment area. While the canal would help them to supply water from the Damodar River to irrigate the fields, the catchment would help them to harvest rainwater. Even though Purulia gets ample rain every year the high run off ratio makes it difficult to sustain agriculture which makes the district drought prone. (Samir Jana/HT Photo)

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Villagers head towards a water hole atop a hill whose groundwater level has risen due to water harvesting at Pipalantri village in Rajsamand district, Rajasthan. (Himanshu Vyas/HT Photo)

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Villagers head towards a water hole atop a hill whose groundwater level has risen due to water harvesting at Pipalantri village in Rajsamand district, Rajasthan. (Himanshu Vyas/HT Photo)

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Kids have a bath in an open roofed bathroom. (Burhaan Kinu/HT Photo)

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A man and a kid walk through a dried up patch of Pipliyapala lake due to the rise in the temperature. (Arun Mondhe/HT Photo)

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A rag picker searches for reusable items in the pile of garbage in a polluted river Tawi. (Nitin Kanotra/HT Photo)

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A pig swims in a garbage filled water source in Noida. (Burhaan Kinu/HT Photo)

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Children play on a fallen tree at Lalbag palace premises in Indore. (Arun Mondhe/HT Photo)

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People take shelter under the age old tree at Marine drive that are specially protected while beautification project of Marine drive in Mumbai. (Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

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The Najafgarh drain, carrying the sewer waste of Delhi, makes its way to the River Yamuna, near the Bhalswa garbage dump. (Gurinder Osan/HT Photo)