{"id":146312,"date":"2021-11-12T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=146312"},"modified":"2021-11-17T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T08:06:12","slug":"cleaning-yamuna-will-require-improving-sewerage-networks-cooperation-between-delhi-and-neighbouring-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cleaning-yamuna-will-require-improving-sewerage-networks-cooperation-between-delhi-and-neighbouring-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Yamuna will require improving sewerage networks, cooperation between Delhi and neighbouring states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>A layer of froth was seen floating over parts of the Yamuna River in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three days, social media has been flooded with visuals of devotees taking a dip in the Yamuna River enveloped by the toxic foam. The formation of froth is a sign of an ecologically-dead river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the reasons for froth formation in the Yamuna River?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct release of untreated wastewater into the Yamuna Barrage: <\/strong>for example, Sugar and paper mills in places like Meerut and Shamli.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inadequate river flow: <\/strong>The Haryana government has been criticised for limiting the river\u2019s flow to the capital. When the river\u2019s flow is lean, it is not able to wash off this detritus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Institutionalise mechanisms of cooperation<\/strong>: cleaning up the Yamuna requires cooperation between the Delhi government and its counterparts in the neighbouring states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maintain minimum river flow<\/strong>: Need to devise adequate measures to maintain the minimum flow of the river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strict enforcement of laws<\/strong>: Government need to prohibit rituals along the Yamuna\u2019s banks to maintain the sanity of the river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Cleaning Yamuna will require improving sewerage networks, cooperation between Delhi and neighbouring states<\/strong>\u201d published in the Livemint on 12th November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A layer of froth was seen floating over parts of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. For the past three days, social media has been flooded with visuals of devotees taking a dip in the Yamuna River enveloped by the toxic foam. The formation of froth is a sign of an ecologically-dead river. What&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cleaning-yamuna-will-require-improving-sewerage-networks-cooperation-between-delhi-and-neighbouring-states\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cleaning Yamuna will require improving sewerage networks, cooperation between Delhi and neighbouring states<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8659,216,943,10467],"class_list":["post-146312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-environmental-pollution","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-river-pollution","tag-yamuna-pollution","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703080669},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}