A municipal worker empties a household storage tank of sewage water after major flooding east of Mexico City.
An earthen levee, built to contain the sewage and rain waters of the La Compania canal in Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico, Mexico broke at 2:00 am on Sunday morning, April 17, 2011, inundating a major highway and hundreds of houses in this community on the outskirts of Mexico City. A Valle de Chalco city worker empties a household tank of fetid water left after the flooding.
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Location: Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico, Mexico
Photo credit: © Keith Dannemiller / Alamy / Afripics
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