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A boy jumps off a derelict boat in the former Aral Sea port of Aralsk.(Reuters)
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Three smiling Vietnamese girls play by the To Lich River seemingly unaware of the harmfull affects caused by the polluted foam discharged from one of Hanoi's many small rivers. (Reuters)
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A girl plays with plastic glasses in a garbage dump in a poor slum of Greater Buenos Aires. (Reuters)
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Waste collector Dinesh Mukherjee, 11, watches his friend jump over a puddle of toxic liquid at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi. (Reuters)
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Three-year-old Sabir wears an old helmet on his head, which he found in a dumping ground, while playing in a Karachi slum. (Reuters)
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A child swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, Shandong province of China. (Reuters)
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A boy swims in the polluted waters of the river Sabarmati to dive for offerings thrown in by worshippers in Ahmedabad.(Reuters)
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A boy swims in polluted water to beat the heat in the western Yemeni city of Hajja. (Reuters)
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A boy swims in the polluted water of the Yamuna River to dive for offerings thrown in by worshippers amidst a dust haze in New Delhi. (Reuters)
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