Bhopal is a city of 1.5 million people situated in the heart of India, halfway between Delhi and Mumbai, and is the capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is also the location of the worldâ??s worst industrial disaster.
The Bhopal tragedy of 1984 has killed thousands of people and continues to affect many thousands more. Protracted, complex international litigation between India and the US has contributed to the fact that, more than 26 years later, the site has still not been remediated. There is now a significant, growing body of evidence demonstrating that this is causing substantial harm to the local population through toxic contamination of the land and the local groundwater.
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