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Here's why Yamuna is dead: No improvement in water quality
Source: The Times of India, Date: , 2017
The Times of India, New Delhi, Feb 2017: The city has spent over Rs 2,000 crore on
Yamuna clean-up in the last 22 years. This shocking revelation came during a
hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday. The reality becomes starker when you
consider recent and past data that show no improvement in water quality: total
coliform, or mostly human and animal excreta, continues to be in lakhs, and
even crores, when the standard is a maximum of 5,000 mpn/100 ml (most probably
number/100 ml). Also, dissolved oxygen (DO), a must for many forms of life in
the water, continues to be negligible, which reiterates that it's a dead river.
DO levels in March months of 2002 and 2006 at Nizamuddin and Palla were 0; in
2016, these were 0.9 and 0.7, respectively. Total coliform levels went up to 16
crore in June last year. No Yamuna cleaning project has managed to bring a
perceptible difference to water quality. Apart from Yamuna Action Plans on
which the bulk of funds were spent, the National Green Tribunal, in its 2015
judgment, had ordered augmenting the functioning of sewage-treatment plants
that are running under capacity and constructing 32 smaller STPs in a
decentralised manner.
Read More: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/heres-why-yamuna-is-dead-no-improvement-in-water-quality/articleshow/57280223.cms
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