River Yamuna and Thames are compared in the document. While River Thames was once very polluted and biologically dead, treatment plants were built to clean it. For River Yamuna, over 60 million people depend on it but most of its water is contaminated. The document concludes that if the situation of Thames could be improved, the same should be done for Yamuna to protect this important resource.

1. Thames VS Yamuna

2. Contents:
 What are rivers
 River Yamuna
 River Thames
 Yamuna VS Thames
 My final conclusion
 Facts
 Bibliography
 Think about it questions

3. 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

4. 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

5. River Yamuna
River Thames
Rivers w
e
will talk about:

6. Name: Yamuna
Location: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Length: 1370 km (851 miles)
Width: 22km
Source: Yamunotri
Mouth: Triveni Sangam

7. • 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.

8. • 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 Dead
Indian 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)

9. 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……

10. Name: 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

11. 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.

12. 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!

13. 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. Ships
2. Boats
3. Cruises
4. Cargo
Yamuna is not used a lot for transportation or cargo, etc.
However, sometimes
people do go boating in the river.

14. 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.

15. Thames VS Yamuna

16. Thames VS Yamuna

17. 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
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18. If we want to save the rivers should we
protest, make a campaign or do it ourselves
with the help of others?

19. Do we all pollute the earth in some or the
other way? I yes, then can we overcome that?
How?

20. 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

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

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

23. So lets make an agreement: