New Delhi: Yamuna River More Toxic Than Ever?

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Taking a bubble bath: A Hindu devotee offers prayers after a dip in the Yamuna River, surrounded by industrial waste, during the religious Karthik Purnima ceremony in New Delhi, India[link]

By Anuj Dewan
New Delhi: The Yamuna River is now considered the most polluted river of the country with a stew of pollutants such as residential waste, industrial chemicals, garbage, detergents and human excreta mixed in it.
The governments of three states Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi have spent around 12,000 Cr. in the river clean-up project, but the river still looks black and white. It looks black because of the pollutants and white because of the chemical foam floating on it...Read here...