Their state, with some 2m people, shares a border with Muslim-majority Bangladesh, with a densely packed population of 150m.
"The reason we're looking to India is that they have enormous population of people that don't have access to adequate sanitation and densely packed population," Rowe says.
The tightly packed population of 14 million range from the designer-clad mega-rich who cruise around in shiny limousines, to the general workforce who swarm on to the ferries or throng into the crowded buses.
India's vast and densely packed population, coupled with a patchy and fragile health care system, has raised fears that the swine flu pandemic could take a particularly large toll here.
Sure, anthrax yields to antibiotics, but the threat of these kinds of attacks is likely to be around for a while, especially in a state with a densely packed population like ours.
Further water pollution, especially of the country's main watershed in the region of the proposed mine, would have disastrous consequences for El Salvador's poor and densely packed population.
Just over one square mile, Central Falls has a tightly packed population, filled mostly with immigrant families, that struggles on a median household income of less than $33,520 a year, according to the Census Bureau's 2005-9 American Community Survey.
Others say that such solutions are most viable in cities with densely packed population and business centers.
In a city like Bangkok, with its wild traffic and densely packed population, it's all too common.
With Israel's ability to drop thousands of tons of explosives on the captivated and densely packed population of Gaza and then sail into international ports without consequence, Zim vessels embody Israel's enduring impunity.
