Once upon a time, Yamuna was known for its clean deep blue water, however now we see an utterly contradictory state of the holy river. Over the years it has gotten immensely contaminated due to numerous reasons marking it as one of the most polluted rivers in the globe.
Yamuna is known for being the second largest tributary of River Ganga, it originates from Yamunotri glacier in Uttarakhand and flows across seven states and collides with river Ganga at Sangam in Prayagraj located in Uttar Pradesh.
As per studies, the most amount of pollution comes from Wazirabad, from where Yamuna enters Delhi.
Almost 57 million people rely on the water of Yamuna. With an annual flow of about 10,000 cubic billion metres, the river is responsible for more than 70% of Delhi’s water supply. However, the ill practices of most residents of New Delhi, the capital of India, water of Yamuna has become severely impure as 58% of the junk gets discarded into it’s water by the people of the state.
According to a report succumbed by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to the Yamuna Pollution Control Committee, at least 90% of domestic contaminated water of the city merges with the water of river Yamuna. The wastewater comes from household chores which incorporates excess amount of chemicals from detergent, bathcare products, kitchen cleaning products and so on.
Extracted samples were found to posses phosphate concentration of 0.51 mg/litre, which is higher than the normal range of 0.005 to 0.05mg/litres.
This extreme amount of phosphate has formed layers of toxic foam that is now covering the entire river.
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