These Surreal Indian Festival Photos Reveal a Huge Environmental Problem

The Yamuna, which stretches 855 miles (1,376 kilometers) by means of northern India, is the longest tributary of the Ganges River. It’s additionally probably the most polluted rivers on the earth, thanks partially to its path by means of New Delhi, the capital of India, which sits upstream of a lot of the river’s route. A authorities monitoring committee for the river estimates that town is answerable for 76% of the air pollution within the river, regardless of solely 2% of the river’s size working by means of town itself.

All this stress has taken a toll on the Yamuna. “The river in Delhi’s stretch is an ecologically dead river,” Bhim Singh Rawat, from the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, told CNN. “It doesn’t have fish or fresh water birds. That has been the case for years now.”