River Pollution

Drying rivers of Madhya Pradesh: Awash in trash, Shipra may cease to exist when Ujjain holds Kumbh Mela in 2028

Shipra, also known as Kshipra, is now dry in long stretches and wherever one finds water it’s all mixed with solid waste, sewage and silt.

'Too polluted': Lucknow devotees refuse to take holy dip in Gomti river on occasion of Makar Sankranti

Disgruntled Lucknow residents say the Gomti river has grown so polluted over the years that the Makar Sankranti ritual of taking a dip in the holy water is now almost dangerous.

Less than two percent of Yamuna river accounts for 76 percent of pollution level, reports monitoring committee

The committee has also recommended a mechanism to be worked out jointly with DPCC and CPCB to install an online system for quality testing of water in Yamuna at Palla and Wazirabad.

Centre to act on 'war footing' to preserve Taj Mahal and Yamuna river against pollution, measures include green fuels, ethanol industries

After being rapped by the Supreme Court over the condition of the Taj Mahal, the government on Monday said that it will take action on "war footing" to deal with air and water pollution in and around the world-famous 17th-century Mughal monument.

Tackling India's water woes: Active citizenry, govt checks on unsustainable use and river pollution needed to address crisis

Despite an abundance of rivers and lakes, India's poor water management has not allowed it to harness their potential and maintain them to meet our needs.

Filled with muck and puja debris, Chitrakoot's heavily polluted Mandakini River is also drying up

‘She who flows calmly’ — that might be the meaning of the beautiful-sounding name Mandakini, but the Mandakini river in Chitrakoot – filled with muck, filth, puja debris, and even a corpse or two, as we learnt last weekend when the body of a 10-year-old girl was fetched out of it – would, we reckon, be flowing anything but calmly.

NGT bans dumping of waste within 500 metres from edge of Ganga: 'UP is duty-bound to shift tanneries'

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday declared 100 metres from the edge of River Ganga as a ‘No-Development Zone’ in the stretch between Haridwar in Uttarakhand and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.

NGT seeks report from Delhi government over cattle blood flowing into Yamuna

The National Green Tribunal on Monday took the Delhi government and other civic authorities to task for not ensuring compliance of its order that no blood should directly seep into the Yamuna due to cattle slaughter.

Art of Living's Ravi Shankar says he's being blamed for highlighting river pollution in the Yamuna

Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on 9 May said his organisation was facing criticism over holding the World Culture fest along the Yamuna in Delhi when its aim was to bring the river pollution into limelight.

Turtles simply cannot clean the toxic sludge that is the River Ganga

If the Ganga river is a moving feast of corpses and plants, these creatures ought to thrive with no help from humans.