Having visited India I know that taking a drink of water can be dangerous.And although I never ride the rail system it’s easy for me to imagine it being a near suicidal decision.
Never ride the Old Delhi freight train.
Only ride the New Delhi freight train!
“Having visited India I know that taking a drink of water can be dangerous.”
Jeremy Wade, the River Monsters fisherman, has a new show called Mighty Rivers.
The first show was about the Ganges and how polluted it is.
He started at the Bay of Bengal and worked his way upriver.
No fish at the mouth of the river.
At the Hindu holy city of Varanasi the river was revoltingly polluted with human waste pumped straight into the river.
At another city further upriver the tanneries were pumping toxic chemicals like chromium straight into the river.
Some of that water was diverted to irrigation systems for food crops.
He had to go into the mountains beyond any large city to find clean water with native fish in abundance.
Based on what was shown I would never visit India much less drink or eat anything local.
Maybe those oh so bright Indian H1B workers here need to stay and fix their own country.
OTOH I can see why the want to unass the place.
The trains are very safe, but slow and the distances are vast. Travel from Bombay to Bangalore takes like a day for 2000 odd km.
Water yeah, drink only bottled water and even brush your teeth with bottled water.