Tag: Yamuna river pollution

PLAN TO MAKE NOIDA A ‘ZERO DISCHARGE CITY’ APPROVED

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The Noida authority has decided to set up multiple sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the drains to treat wastewater that empties into the Yamuna. The step aims to ensure that only treated wastewater is dumped into the city drains connected to the Yamuna, said officials on Sunday. The Authority, in its 221st board meeting on Saturday, approved a proposal to commence work on this ambitious project that will make Noida a “zero discharge city” that dumps zero untreated wastewater into soil or drains. Currently, Noida has eight STPs, located in…

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The River Crisis: Why Industry Must Begin to Lead Cleanup

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India holds roughly 18% of the world’s population but only about 4% of its renewable freshwater resources, raising the stakes of river degradation. Across the country, untreated industrial wastewater contaminates rivers including the Yamuna, Ganga, Sabarmati and Jojari, with many tributaries critically degraded and facing functional collapse in coming decades. A major contributor is the textile and tannery industry, which consumes vast amounts of water and generates difficult-to-remove waste. Polluted rivers threaten drinking water, farm productivity, public health and local economies. Studies near Kanpur’s tanneries show chromium in groundwater far…

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