“Those are pumps extracting sand,” Dalvi explains. “I know it is illegal, given how close these pumps are to the nearby bridge. But authorities are in collusion with the sand mafia, and keep ignoring our complaints.” As day breaks, one can see the pipes and pumps lined up all along the beach, with huge mounds of sand waiting to be ferried by trucks to Mumbai and its suburbs where the raw material will feed the city’s insatiable construction industry." So basically we are now eating our own entrails to survive? dnaindia/mumbai/1869629/report-coming-a-sandstorm
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:42:41 +0000