It's not just the slums of India that have the smell of death inside them, all slums have the smell of death in the air. Because most of these places are poor, there is no running water and no drainage system. Water pollution coupled with the many people gathered could easily occur. Both water and air pollution can make the place smell like death. This is because it is easy to get sick when exposed to pollution for a long time, and once you get sick, it can cause a vicious cycle.
In the slums, many factories exist illegally and toxic, dangerous jobs are plentiful. But in order to make a living, they have to risk their health and lives to do them. The workers work under toxic gases with no protection, and many of the locals die of respiratory diseases; polluted rivers slowly invade their diets. The children are no exception; their parents send them out to pick up used plastics for recycling. At home, women weave leather stripes into straps for a variety of products, including handbags and shoes.
Metal workers spend their days making round metal objects, these are used for decorations on fence posts and gates. Animals live with people, while the lack of cleaning equipment for water sources sometimes causes infectious diseases. Rows and rows of tarpaulin shacks and, in better conditions, low brick houses are the first impression of the slums. Walking through them, the unpleasant smell and the dust that fills the air is suffocating.
With no running water system or drainage facilities, people here have to go to a water point hundreds of meters away to fetch well water that has not been sterilized in any way, and store it in large plastic buckets in front of their shacks. The used sewage is then dumped out.
These mixed human and animal excreta and all kinds of garbage sewage pooled to the narrow road from the house of only one or two meters on both sides, emitting a stream of rotten smell.