Location: Delhi, UttarPradesh, India
Length: 1370 km (851 miles)
Width: 22km
Source: Yamunotri
Mouth: Triveni Sangam
River Yamuna also known as river Jumna. River Yamuna is named after Yami, the sister of Yama, the god of death.It is the major river of the north India, especially in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. The popular belief is that, those who take a dip inits holy waters are not captured by the fears of death.
About 60 million people depend on Yamuna waters. Available water treatment facilities are not capable of removing the pesticide traces. Water works laboratories cannot even detect them. Worse, Yamuna leaves Delhi as a sewer, with the city’s biological and chemical wastes. All most, 96% of natural fresh water is taken away after a few kilometers of Yamuna’s birth. Officially Dead Indian government’s own websites claim that there is not a drop of natural river water after it flows through Delhi. This happened due to the Hathnikund dam which is built in Haryana. At first, rivers were treated like very special holyplaces, but now people throw garbage and pollute the river through all the chemical waste that comes from the factories. Moreover people perform religious rituals and pollute the river by disposing flowers, idols of god sand goddesses, dead bodies etc. “few come to the Yamuna River in Delhi now to bathe in the black, foul-smelling and stagnant water, or to stand on river bank slittered with mountains of garbage.”, this is what I got from one of the sites I was searching on, and it was not a pleasant sight.
Location: England, U.K
Length: 346 km (215 miles)
Width: 826.8 f (252 meters)
Source: Thames head, Gloucestershire
Mouth: Thames Estuary, North sea
There are many different industries along the Thames. Industries along the Thames.Two-thirds of the water used in Britain comes from river sand lakes, and a third from groundwater . Perhaps surprisingly, water for cooling in electricity generating stations is the biggest use, followed by fishing, farming and industrial uses.The second largest use of river water is for the public water supply.Motorboats are common on the Thames. Portsand shipyards are constructed bythe sea.Fishing is one of the most popular sport of Britain.Also, River Thames ishome to over 120 fish species. River Thames is the cleanest river in the world that flows through a major city. Although, it is amazing that fifty years ago the river was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead. Thus, from 1830 to 1860 tens of thousands of people died of cholera as a result of the pollution in the Thames.Sewage was being discharged directly into the Thames. Despite the foul smell, people continued to wash and bathe and drink from the river. A few years later the curtains in the Houses of Parliament had to be soaked in lime to stop the odors (bad smells) from preventing government from carrying on. Also, in 1878 the pleasure steamship Princess Alice sunk in a river collision. Most of the 600 or so passengers who died did not die from drowning, they died because of the pollution in the river.Biologically dead! So if we talk about the daily commuters in Thames then I would say that it is worth a try going to a cruise in Thames. Well, except cruises there are a lot of other daily commuter.
like:
1. Ships
2. Boats
3. Cruises
4. Cargo
Yamuna is not used a lot for transportation or cargo, etc. However, sometimes people do go boating in the river. It was then decided that treatment plants should be built to clean the water from the Thames before it was pumped to homes. The treatment plants also cleaned the dirty water from homes before it went back into the Thames. Not only did the peoples health improve but also the water in the Thames became cleaner.During the Second World War (1939 - 45) many treatment plants were damaged by German bombs. A lot of dirty water went into the Thames and killed the plants and fishes living in it. New treatment plants were built in the 1950s. In the 1960s new laws were made to stop factories from letting their dirty water go into the river.According to me, the conclusion I will have to make is that when river Thames was dirty, the people decided to clean it and put treatment plants because they knew the problem and the solution and they did take action. Whereas, for Yamuna we know the problem and the solution pretty well, we also have the power to do it. So, just one question: If they can do it why can’t we? Even though we can do
If we want to save the rivers should we protest, make a campaign or do it ourselves with the help of
others.
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