Yamuna infused with oxygen using cylinders and pipes to highlight pollution
Source: First Post, Date: , 2017
Source: First Post, Agra, May, 2017 :- In a unique protest, Yamuna river on
Monday wasgiven oxygen using cylinders
and pipes by a group of volunteers who wanted to draw attention of lawmakers to
the pollution in the river. River Connect volunteers gathered at the
Etmauddaula view point park with cylinders and pipes."Yamuna has zero
oxygen level which has resulted in the death of marine life. The river water is
unfit for human consumption and even bacterias cannot survive," a river
activist, Shravan Kumar Singh, said.The river is mostly dry which poses a
threat to the foundation of the Taj Mahal which experts say should remain moist
with river water. The city also observed the water tragedy day today, marking
the death of 21 people who died after drinking municipal water on 21 May, 1993.