Delhi Develoment Authority....

are responsible for civil works in the city and there is a logic to what is happening in our neighborhood. Any flowing water  in Delhi is basically a sewer - for example this one that runs by our temporary atartment.

It does seem that have a solution, cover it up with cement and the put a nice walking trail on top. The process has a certain logic. First finish one side (see the photo to the left)

Then push dirt down into the "creek" to divering all the water to one side Unfortunaely this creates the unfortunate situation wherein there is no water flow on one side.., a remarkable large scale microbiologi experiment that boggles the mind (and the nose). I love to stop and check it out - how the hue becomes a puptrid grey and it bubbles like beer brewing, but the family hates this little period of observation!

Then themost remarkable part is that guys go down in that muck and start to set up braces for the cement forms! Amazing that one can walk in the muck without promptly dying of hepatitis or some unknown emerging infection and more remarkable that one can get a solid footing for the braces!

 All of this is done with exquisite attention to detail, though no the ones we would expect. They have cone all this construction without disrupting the Animal Welfare Societies "stray dog feeding site" where every mornign about a dozn dog biscuts magically appear!