The Yamuna

With or without climate change's help the Yamuna has been dying for years now - it was even pronounced officially dead in a newspaper about 10 years ago! Industries all along the banks of the Yamuna spew their untreated wastes into the river - along with the domestic and sewage wastes [again untreated] from millions of homes. Unsurprisingly the stretch of the river that runs through Delhi is the most polluted. On a good day - depending on the wind or if you have a stuffy nose, you'll be lucky not to smell it as you reach closer to the river.


More often than not, the ugliness and foulness of the river is blamed on the hundreds of hutment dwellers who live along its banks. However, the sewage and pollution they release into the river [ considerable thouhg it may be] cannot be compared to the vast vast amounts of toxins and sewage from the industries and the privileged classes around Delhi.


These are images of Yamuna's true children - the ones who live by her, with her and in her - uncomplaining for they have no access to any other water.