MARTYN AIM

INDIA: TROUBLE IN PARADISE

A man dumps garbage down the hillside to the Beas River below in Manali. Intensive tourism pushes an already inadequate infrastructure to breaking point. Yearly flash floods wash the contents of the dump off the hillside into the river below. The dump is then ready to be filled up for another year. (Credit Image: © Martyn Aim)
A man dumps garbage down the hillside to the Beas River below in Manali. Intensive tourism pushes an already inadequate infrastructure to breaking point. Yearly flash floods wash the contents of the dump off the hillside into the river below. The dump is then ready to be filled up for another year. (Credit Image: © Martyn Aim)