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Pollution of Ganga at Kanpur Ganga at Kanpur : A natural sewer, a garbage depot, a morgue and more…
Why is Ganga most polluted at Kanpur ? Ganga lacks water and flow at Kanpur Kanpur is the most populated/polluted town in Uttar Pradesh Kanpur-An industrial town Towns on both sides of the river Kanpur Barrage
A Journey of the most polluted stretch of the river Ganga at Kanpur
Ganga Barrage commissioned in 2005 Ganga is allowed to flow through just one gate during lean period
More water is needed during the dry months • There is no policy to augment the flow in the river. • Government plans to take 1600 mld from the river at barrage by 2030. • Hardly any water will be left for the downstream.
Sisamau drain Looks like a tributary of Ganga!!!
Sisamau drain discharges 140 MLD of raw sewage into Ganga.
All efforts have failed to tap Sisamau drain • GAP I did partial tapping. • Efforts were made during GAP II & JNURM. • Now a new project is being made under NGRBA.
Toxic tannery effluent being bypassed into sacred Ganga at Dapka ghat
Tannery discharging its effluent directly into Ganga
Toxic tannery effluent entering river Ganga at Kanpur
Tanneries are synonym with Ganga pollution • Government has been struggling with tannery pollution for the last 30 years. • We still do not know as how much tannery wastewater is being generated. • Shared system of treatment has failed. • It should either be sole responsibility of the government or tanneries.
Dead bodies floating in Ganga
Discarded clay idols along river Ganga
Dhobi Ghat in operation along river Ganga
A variety of offerings to river Ganga
Most of the houses treat Ganga as their backyard
Various Treatment Plants built under Ganga Action Plan Phase I
Treatment plants Neither Ganga friendly nor People friendly. A BIG FAILURE !!!
Treated wastewater is used for irrigation
Wastewater (a mixture of sewage and tannery effluent) as irrigation water for Jajmau farmlands containing hazardous pollutants ….
Unsafe wastewater reaching farmlands
• The wastewater irrigation has impacted the local environment, livelihoods and health of the people. • The food chain is also being poisoned and the contaminated crops and the milk are reaching the citizens of Kanpur.
Soil is adversely impacted by the wastewater which contains toxicants from highly polluting leather industries of Kanpur Impact of wastewater irrigation on standing crops
Villagers with various kinds of skin problems (rashes, boils, papules, vesicles, eczema, ring worm, white spot, blisters, decay of nails, advance stages of leprosy, numbness of limbs)
Helpless victims of unsafe irrigation and drinking water
River Ganga can not be cleaned/rejuvenated unless • Flow in the river is augmented during the dry months. • Sewage and industrial effluent is stopped from entering the river.
Can we do it? • Can we augment the flow in the river? How? • How much time shall we need? • Are we ready to dedicate the required resources to treat the wastewater to safe limits?
Thanks Rakesh K Jaiswal Eco Friends Contact at: Mob: 9793633300 Website: www.ecofriends.org e-mail : info@ecofriends.org; rakesh@ecofriends.org
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