Mythology has named Yamuna after the sister of Yama, the Hindu God of death. With the presence of toxic pesticides and chemicals in the river, this nomenclature seems prophetic

...is yet another example of monstrous short sightedness on the part of governments bent on addressing their needs without a thought for the environment

Segment I: Himalayan: From source to Tajewala; 172 km Segment II: Upper: From Tajewala to Wazirabad; 224 km Segment III: Delhi: Wazirabad barrage to Okhla barrage; 22 km Segment IV:

Delhi gets its water from the following sources off the Yamuna

Agra’s residents drink the waters of the Yamuna which become a ‘green soup’ in the fourth segment

The French manner of dealing with an apathetic government needs to be replicated in the Indian context

The capital s drains are the biggest contributors to the pollution

A study carried out by H C Agarwal, P K Mittal, K B Menon and M K K Pillai of the department of zoology, University of Delhi, published in August 1985, traced DDT residues in water, bottom sediments

“Round-the-clock monitoring by a

The answer to the whole issue of murky rivers lies in preventing their pollution, rather than polluting them first and then treating the raw river water for drinking purposes

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