River Yamuna India Foaming

A hindu devotee offers prayers after a dip in the yamuna river surrounded by industrial effluent during kartik purnima festival in new delhi nov.
River yamuna india foaming. The yamuna has been poisoned for a long time and now it s dying. But these photographs actually reveal the shocking extent of pollution of the yamuna river in india that has caused a thick layer of foam to completely cover it. In march 2017 he called the agra police and reported a case of attempted murder of river yamuna. While it might.
India s most polluted river actually bubbles with toxic foam nearly one billion hindus worship the yamuna river as a goddess. Parts of the yamuna are now. What s common between the yamuna river in delhi bellandur lake in bengaluru and marina beach in tamil nadu a thick carpet of foam. Water bodies in india are under threat.
It looks like candy floss but it not. The water of the river was very toxic and hazardous claimed a rower. Recently scores of helpless devotees on the occasion of chhath puja were forced to offer prayers to the sun god by immersing themselves in the toxic foam present inside the river yamuna during the 4 day long festival. Pink foam from toxic industrial waste floating in the river yamuna at wazirabad in north delhi is yet another reminder of how polluted the river is.
This foam floating on the surface of the bodies has also been carried away to roads and residential areas by the winds. This foaming is quite similar to the foaming at the mouth of a poisoned person. The yamuna river provides drinking water to delhi s near 20 million population however river was covered with toxic foam caused by high levels of ammonia. It is toxic foam.
The reality is that stretches of one of india s most sacred rivers the yamuna are covered with toxic foam caused by industrial waste.