Yamuna

Water Quality At Western Yamuna Canal Meets The Desired Water Quality Standards

Water quality at western Yamuna canal meets the desired water quality standards. Pollution Control Research Institute (PCRI), Haridwar, is carrying out water quality monitoring and analysis under Yamuna Action Plan. It is being conducted at Yamunanagar upstream, Yamunanagar downstream, Panipat do...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

... From a boat on the yamuna River that flows past India's capital, it's easy t...ily urine, excrement and other waste flow into the yamuna -- much of it raw as treatment plants struggle to ...onwide problem -- What has happened in the yamuna is happening to rivers all over India, where 30 pe...

You Need Blood? Just Click the Mouse!

... of rare groups, the group launched the website in March 2000. "Indianblooddonors.com is an address which can save your life. From Adilabad to yamuna Nagar, from the most common blood group to the most rare, the site has a huge database of blood donors. So if you need blood, it's a good place to tur...

Taj Mahal is Enveloped by Pollution and a Foul Smell

...er, says that the Taj Mahal and Agra city provided two striking contrasts. "The Taj Mahal is very beautiful, but Agra city is dirty and the yamuna is dirty also," Hiroshi said. K.S. Rana, a leading campaigner for saving the Taj, said: "If things continue like this, the Taj Mahal's age w...

ISRO Chief Concerned About River Pollution

... The man heading India's space programme says the pollution of the river yamuna is a major problem. "Nobody feels like going to the river these days. It was possible some years ago," Indian Space Research Organisation (IS...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

...rs in India are worried, as the floodplains of the yamuna river are being converted into shopping malls, res...n Indian "national water brotherhood". The yamuna runs for around 1,370 km. Its source is in the Him... in India in 2010)." By some accounts, the yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world, e...

Delivering the Green Message to Children

...tion, rising levels of pollutions, dumping of wastes into the rivers, and so on. "The students show a deep concern when you tell them that the yamuna is clean when it enters Delhi, but when it reaches at Okhla, it is level-5 dirty - the highest level of pollution," she pointed out. Through P...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

...ion of people is what Manoj Misra, convenor of the yamuna Jiye Abhiyan, also believes in. An initiative to save the yamuna river from further pollution, the Abhiyan was to take out a candlelight vigil on the banks of the yamuna later in the day. 'Since today is the world earth ...

Delhi's Sanitation in a Pathetic State: UNDP

... The end result is that less than half of the city's waste is processed by the sewerage plants before the filth is dumped into the already polluted yamuna river. 'In some cities, coverage (sanitation area) rates are high but sewerage systems are in extreme disrepair. Delhi has many of the trappings...

Yamuna Pollution Kills Thousands Of Fish

... Thousands of dead fish have been floating along the banks of the yamuna river between Mathura and Agra due to the increased water pollution, creating a shortage of drinking// water in this historic Taj city. With disso...