This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .
The froth was caused at this time of the year due to the lean water flow in the river. After the construction of the Hathnikund barrage upstream in Haryana, the flow downstream is now just 160 cusecs which cannot dilute effluents, which consequently build up in the form of foam.
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .
The water-sharing agreement of 1994 among the Yamuna riparian states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi is not due for revision before 2025. So, we could be seeing images similar to these again next year.
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river on the evening of November 10, 2021. Their photographs raised a storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river .