Caption

Labourer carries extracted sand from Beki River, in Barpeta district in Assam, India on Sunday September 2, 2018. Sand extraction from rivers, essential for construction and infrastructure, significantly impacts the environment by destroying aquatic habitats, increasing riverbank erosion, degrading water quality, depleting groundwater, and altering natural flow patterns

Date

Sep 02, 2018

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Infinity News Collective

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BRK24D98_115

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NA

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No

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Rights managed

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52,7Mb (2,6Mb) / 17,9in x 11,4in / 5376 x 3424 (300dpi)

Keywords

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