Many of them had initially thrown garbage, water, and insults at Mark, but she was eventually given complete access to their lives.
There are separate exhibits on local environmentalism as well, showing models for low-carbon-footprint housing, plans to increase wind and solar power, designs for the recycling of garbage and water and for the preservation of some old neighborhoods of courtyard houses, with their elaborate attention to feng shui, the ancient Chinese way of ensuring harmony between man and nature.
"We teach residents to take on safe hygiene practices like cutting their nails, safely disposing of garbage, boiling water and cleaning their homes and surrounding areas," she says.
The presence of garbage dumps, water bodies, railway tracks, distance of the cluster from the PUHC, number of clinics and pharmacies, schools and Anganwadi centres (Maternal and Child Community centre) in the study area were also recorded.
Stopping the dumping of garbage, treating sewage water before it is allowed into the lakes, checking encroachments and slowing the development agenda are top of the list.
Rapid coastal development has lead to increased run off from land sand and rubble from building sites, sewage from hotels, not to mention increased amounts of garbage like plastic water bottles and plastic bags.
To promote the recycling of garbage and sewer water, agriculture in encouraged on the dumping grounds.
The raggedy tent city, with its piles of garbage, puddles of standing water, swarms of mosquitoes, packs of thieves and an increasingly restive population, sits in the front yard of the smashed National Palace.
After the whale's death, government officials in Spain's Murcia region, where the animal was found, launched a campaign to raise awareness of humans' consumption of plastic and disposal of garbage in bodies of water.
Despite the exotic surroundings it was difficult to ignore the layers of garbage floating in the water below, marring what was otherwise a historic treasure.
