Re-imagining the Yamuna river can help transform it
Lucknow, June 27 -- Throughout the long Delhi summer, a trickle of the city's sewage and waste run-off feeds the Yamuna.To re-envision the river, a team of experts comprising urban ecologists, architects from the university of Virginia and government experts have worked for six years to devise a workable solution. The result - the Yamuna River Project (YRP) - proposes a synergy between India's capital city and the river. To understand the problem, an analogy with the thermometer seems apt: if the mercury reads 103 degrees Celsius fever on your thermometer, does it mean the thermometer is sick or it's your body? The Yamuna is the barometer of the city's cleanliness; it is simply recording what the city is doing to it. That's why the Yamuna question needs to be reframed....
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