Cities’ poor infrastructure behind Indian rivers’ ‘dying-like’ condition
The rivers are lifeline of Indian people. But the lifeline is in danger because of poor infrastructure across the cities located on the banks of the rivers. These rivers are in dying condition and the threat is coming from the continuous routine dumping of millions of tonnes of sewage across the country. Indian cities are lacking the basic infrastructure of sewage system and drainage system. These are the culprit factors behind the killing of India’s rivers.
New Delhi produces 3.6 billion litres of sewage per day and the poor sewage management is not able to treat half of the sewage produce in a day. All this going into the Yamuna River daily and making the river almost dead. This not the story of Yamuna only, the same thing is being happened with almost every river in India.
Sunita Narain, director of the Centre for Science and Environment, said that the industrial pollution is not the sole factor that is damaging the rivers. Sewage pollution is itself is a big problem that is playing a major role in river pollution. Sunita said that the Yamuna is dead; we just haven’t officially cremated it yet.
This is not the end of the story as India has also a badly structured and managed drainage system in ‘working’ condition. It needs a immediate repair but there is no one to take cars of the system 6that is making the lifeline itself dead. The climate change is another threat to India’s water supplies in north Indian rivers from the Himalayan glaciers.