India’s waterway, the Yamuna River, is to be transformed into a luxury eco-resort in an ambitious multimillion-dollar cleanup project.
Officials in India’s capital New Delhi have revealed plans to develop visitor attractions such as bank-side promenades, ‘Zen gardens’, wildlife observation decks with biodiversity zones and a bamboo eco-skywalk, in a bid to attract more tourists to the area by 2015.
The new plans also include details of a clean-up programme, which aims to rid the water of pollution and stop sewerage flowing into the river within four years.
In the past 20 years, the Delhi government has spent over US$430 million on schemes to clean up the river, however the latest report show that the river is still as dirty as it has ever been.
Over three billion litres of sewage water is being pumped into the river around the city of New Delhi each day.
The Yamuna River originates in the foothills of the Lower Himalayas, and then gently flows through Delhi and past the Taj Mahal at Agra, by which time the blue glacial waters have changed to a black sludge.
The clean-up mission will also help preserve the foundations of the Taj Mahal. The UNESCO World Heritage site’s deterioration has been partially attributed to the pollution of the river.
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