{"id":75842,"date":"2026-01-02T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/02\/sewage-in-drinking-water-deaths-india-cleanest-city-indore"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:14:10","slug":"sewage-in-drinking-water-blamed-for-at-least-10-deaths-in-indias-cleanest-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75842","title":{"rendered":"Sewage in drinking water blamed for at least 10 deaths in India\u2019s \u2018cleanest city\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds hospitalised in Indore after public toilet built above water pipeline appears to have let sewage into supply<\/p>\n<p>Sewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 others to hospital in Indore, ranked India\u2019s \u201ccleanest city\u201d for the last eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of a congested, lower-income neighbourhood in Indore, Madhya Pradesh\u2019s commercial capital, had been warning authorities for months about foul-smelling tap water. Their complaints went unheeded, despite the city\u2019s much-lauded ranking for waste segregation and other cleanliness measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/02\/sewage-in-drinking-water-deaths-india-cleanest-city-indore\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds hospitalised in Indore after public toilet built above water pipeline appears to have let sewage into supplySewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 othe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[826,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-water","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75842\/revisions\/75843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}