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  • Delhi draws three-quarters of its drinking water from the Yamuna river, into which the city dumps quantities of sewage, almost all of it untreated, to join a cocktail of farm chemicals and industrial effluents, including arsenic.

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  • It has a dominant position in almost all of the industries that it operates in.

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  • Strangely, as with almost all facets of disgust, it is in our nature to be attracted to this repulsion.

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  • The phenomenon started at a time when relatively few of us had true high-speed Internet access, and almost all of those who did had it at only the office.

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