The sparkle has returned to the Yamuna river flowing through India’s capital, residents say, after decades of filthy and stinking waters matted with garbage and polluted with toxic effluent from industry
NEW DELHI - The sparkle has returned to the Yamuna river flowing through India’s capital of New Delhi, residents say, after decades of filthy and stinking waters, matted with garbage and polluted with toxic effluent from industry.
Sanjay Gir, a 55-year-old Hindu monk who spends his time on the riverbank, said he could not remember when he had last seen the river so clean. “Because everything is closed right now - all the factories, industries are shut...their waste is not coming into the river.” One of the world’s toughest lockdowns against the coronavirus, which has caused nearly 217,000 infections and more than 6,000 deaths in India, kept out most of the industrial waste that normally clogs the Yamuna.
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