ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 3月2日 03時15分

To feed an enormous building boom, India’s relentless sand miners have devastated the waterways that make life possible. Sand, you see, is a crucial ingredient in concrete, and India is urbanizing at a speed and scale virtually unmatched by any country in history. Highways, metros, dams, apartment towers: Each structure swallows unimaginable helpings of sand. So why don’t Indians just shift to other construction materials? It’s partly because concrete is cheap, strong, easy to use and highly versatile. The other part is cultural: Building a house out of concrete is seen as a matter of prestige. The photographer George Georgiou took this photo of swimmers by the Yamuna River while on assignment for @nytmag in #NewDelhi. More than half the apartments built during India’s construction boom can be found in this area. Today, the liquid that flows in the Yamuna riverbed near one particularly large suburb is made up of every variety of urban waste: factory refuse, slaughterhouse runoff, sewage. Visit the link in our profile to read about the “sand mafia” stealing India’s rivers in this week’s @nytmag.

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