A ful-wallah delivers flowers on his bicycle in the district of Mehrauli, one of seven ancient cities that are now a part of Delhi. Photograph by Stuart Freedman/Panos
The neurasthenia and lower serum albumin in workers were due to the bad ventilation in the laundries and the chronic exposure of workers to tetrachloroethylene.
Most work in small dry cleaners, but with some large industrial laundries handling hospital and hotel contracts and specialised operations such as industrial wipers.
Most of the world's potable water—freshwater suitable for drinking—is accounted for by groundwater, which is stored in the pores and fractures in rocks.
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