Rivers

Thames VS Yamuna

Contents: What are rivers

River Yamuna

River Thames

Yamuna VS Thames

My final conclusion

Facts

Bibliography

Think about it questions

River Yamuna and Thames include:

A little introduction about the rivers • The forces of urbanism/ how are we impacting the rivers?• Specifying the importance of rivers in religious terms• How did settlement around the river evolve? • The dependence of the population on the rivers• Can we protect our river today?• Daily commuters-cargo, cruises, ships, boats etc. • Comparison and similarities between two cities and the river in them Problems • future challenges

What are rivers?

Rivers are important sources of water for households, industry and agriculture. A river begins at a source and ends at a mouth, following a path called a course. This coarse is divided into 3 main parts:• Upper course• Middle course• Lower course

River Yamuna

River Thames

Riverswe

will talkabout:

River YamunaName: Yamuna

Location: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Length: 1370 km (851 miles)

Width: 22km

Source: Yamunotri

Mouth: Triveni Sangam

River Yamuna• River Yamuna also known as River Jumna

• River Yamuna is named after Yami, the sister of Yama, the god of death.

• It is the major river of the north India, especially in Uttrakhand and Uttar Pradesh. •The popular belief is that, those who take a dip in it's holy waters are not captured by the fears of death.

River Yamuna• About 60 million people depend on Yamuna waters.

• Available water treatment facilities are not capable of removing the pesticide traces.

• Waterworks laboratories cannot even detect them. • Worse, Yamuna leaves Delhi as a sewer, with the city’s biological and chemical wastes. • All most, 97% of natural fresh water is taken away after a few kilometers of Yamuna’s birth.

Officially DeadIndian government’s own websites claim that there is not a drop of natural river water after it flows through Delhi. this happen due to the Hathnikund dam which is built in Haryana. (WATER QUALITY STATUS OF YAMUNA RIVER (1999 – 2005)

What is Yamuna in India now?At first, rivers were treated like very special holy places, but now people throw garbage and pollute the river through all the chemical waste that comes from the factories. Moreover people perform religious rituals and pollute the river by disposing flowers, idols of gods and goddesses, dead bodies etc. “few come to the Yamuna River in Delhi now to bathe in the black, foul-smelling and stagnant water, or to stand on river banks littered with mountains of garbage.”, this is what I got from one of the sites I was searching on, and it was not a pleasant sight. Is this really what we want to be said by the people of our country? Think about it……

River Yamuna

River ThamesName: Thames

Location: England, U.K

Length: 346 km (215 miles)

Width: 826.8 f (252 meters)

Source: Thames head, Gloucestershire

Mouth: Thames Estuary, North sea

River Thames

Thames

There are many different industries along the Thames. industries along the Thames.

Two-thirds of the water used in

Britain comes from rivers and lakes, and a third from groundwater.

Perhaps surprisingly, water for cooling in electricity generating stations is the biggest use, followed by fishing, farming and industrial uses.

The second largest use of river water is for the public water supply.

Motorboats are common on the Thames. Ports and shipyards are constructed by the sea.

Fishing is Britain's most popular sport. Also, River Thames is home to over 120 fish species.

River Thames

River Thames is the cleanest river in the world that flows through a major city. Although, it is amazing that fifty years ago the river was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead. Thus, from 1830 to 1860 tens of thousands of people died of cholera as a result of the pollution in the Thames.

Sewage was being discharged directly into the Thames. Despite the foul smell, people continued to wash and bathe and drink from the river. A few years later the curtains in the Houses of Parliament had to be soaked in lime to stop the odors (bad smells) from preventing government from carrying on. Also, in 1878 the pleasure steamship Princess Alice  sunk in a river collision. Most of the 600 or so passengers who died did not die from drowning, they died because of the pollution in the river.

Biologically dead!

So if we talk about the daily commuters in Thames then I would say that it is worth a try going to a cruise in Thames. Well, except cruises there are a lot of other daily commuter like:

1. Ships2. Boats3. Cruises4. Cargo

Yamuna is not used a lot for transportation or cargo, etc. However, sometimes

people do go boating in the river.

River Thames

It was then decided that Treatment plants should be built to clean the water from the Thames before it was pumped to homes. The treatment plants also cleaned the dirty water from homes before it went back into the Thames. Not only did the people's health improve but also the water in the Thames became cleaner.

During the Second World War (1939 - 45) many treatment plants were damaged by German bombs. A lot of dirty water went into the Thames and killed the plants and fishes living in it. New treatments plants were built in the 1950s. In the 1960s new laws were made to stop factories from letting their dirty water go into the river.

Thames VS YamunaNo. Thames Yamuna

1. It is the cleanest river that flows through a major city.

It is one of the most polluted rivers in the world.

2. Thames is not used for religious purposes in England.

People follow the old belief that Yamuna is very holy, thus, they dispose off things like: flowers, garlands, coins, dead bodies, etc. in the water.

3. Laws are made for the factories who let their waste in the river, and those laws are followed.

There are no laws which state that factories who let their waste flow into the Yamuna should be banged or charged.

4. Over 50 years ago Thames was cleaned by the treatment plants the government had put up. After the world war 3, even though many treatment plants were destroyed, but the government decided to rebuild them.

Right now Yamuna is very polluted and is in the same situation as, Thames was 50 years ago. Just the difference is, that a big accident like the river collision of Thames in 1878 in hasn’t occurred yet so the people are just taking it for granted but when something will happen they will regret.

Thames VS YamunaNo. Thames Yamuna

5. Thames is used quite a lot for the daily commuters like: ships, boats, cargo, cruises, etc.

Yamuna is not used much for daily commuters.

6. Thames is one the cleanest rivers in the world right now.

Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world right now.

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According to me, the conclusion I will have to make is that when river Thames was dirty the people decided to clean it and put treatment plants because they knew the problem and the solution and they did take action. Whereas, for Yamuna we know the problem and the solution pretty well, we also have the power to do it. So, just one question: If they can do it why can’t we? Even though we can do it easily?

River Thames River Yamuna

My final conclusion:

VS

Before I end this ppt I have a question:

If we want to save the rivers should we protest, make a campaign or do it

ourselves with the help of others?

Think about it!

Before I end this ppt I have a question:

Do we all pollute the earth in some or the other way? I yes, then can we

overcome that? How?

Think about it!

1. www.rainwaterharvesting.com

2. http://yffindia.blogspot.in/2010/04/sri-sri-ravi-shankar-meri-dilli-meri.html

3. http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?typeid=19&catid=460&id=2170

4. www.saveyamuna.org

5. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/651644/Yamuna-River

6. http://creative.sulekha.com/story-of-yamuna-the-river-1_426929_blog

7. http://www.visitthames.co.uk/about-the-river

8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames

9. http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/riverthames/facts.htm

10. www.wikianswers.com

11. http://www.indianetzone.com/32/history_yamuna_river_indian_river.htm

Bibliography:

The Rivers provides us with the most important thing in the world...

Save the rivers stop the pollution, because that’s the only solution.

So lets make an agreement:

we will not pollute the river!

Made By: Rishika Singh