Sapling Plantation Programme

Agra to clean up Yamuna river, through ponds

Uttar Pradesh officials have devised a novel method to clean up the highly-polluted Yamuna River: Excavate 10 ponds to store waste water that was hitherto flowing into the river from 19 drains, treat this and then use it to create clusters of greenery along the river."This project envisages a series of 10 ponds along the river to store drain water ...