Local man conducts his morning ablutions at Yamuna River day India produces billion litres of liquid effluent.

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A local man conducts his morning ablutions and toilet at the Nigambodh Ghat crematorium on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi, India. Every day India produces billion litres of liquid effluent. There is only the capacity to treat one third of that, meaning the remaining two thirds are released into the country's rivers, the sea or allowed to seep back into the ground to contaminate aquifers. India's Pollution Control Board released a report on sewage management this week showing off the shocking figures and state of the local waterways

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Size: 5400px × 3600px
Location: Yamuna River, Delhi, India
Photo credit: © Graham Crouch / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: delhi, drain, effluent, india, morning, outfall, pollution, river, rubbish, toilet, yamuna