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	Yamuna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yamuna is a major river of northern India, with a total length of around 1370 km.
		According to legend the goddess of the river is the sister of the Hindu god of death, Yama and the daughter of Surya, the Sun god.
		The river Yamuna is also connected to the mythology surrounding the Hindu god Krishna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamuna (283 words)

	Ghaggar-Hakra River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wide river bed of the Ghaggar river suggest that the river once flowed in great strength, and that it formerly continued through eastern Pakistan in the presently dry channel of the Hakra River, possibly emptying into the Rann of Kutch.
		The disappearance of the river may have been caused by earthquakes which may have led to the redirection of its tributaries.
		The beforehand narrow Ghaggar river bed itself is becoming suddenly wider at the conjunction where the Sutlej should have met the Ghaggar river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hakra_River (1447 words)

	State of the River Yamuna
		To gauge the immensity of the threat, it is necessary to trace the river’s flow — divided in five segments on the basis of hydro-geomorphological and ecological characteristics — down to its final reaches.
		The state department of agriculture estimates that 12.5 per cent of the Yamuna basin has forest cover, 27.5 is wastelands, 53 per cent is agricultural land; the rest are villages, towns, cities and roads.
		Yamuna enters Delhi at Palla village 15 km upstream of Wazirabad barrage, which acts as a reservoir for Delhi.
	www.rainwaterharvesting.org /Crisis/River-yamuna.htm (1298 words)

	Striving for a cleaner, healthier Yamuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rivers like the Ganga and the Yamuna, which once ran all through the year, now fade with the end of the monsoons, primarily because of unplanned and excessive withdrawal of water and unbridled pollution.
		The Yamuna is the lifeline of Delhi, quenching 60% of the capital's thirst.
		Considering the rate at which the situation in the Yamuna was deteriorating, the Supreme Court banned the discharge of effluents by industries in Delhi and Haryana into the Yamuna river, after examining the report of the CPCB, which presented an alarming picture.
	www.teriin.org /energy/yamuna.htm (1515 words)

	River yamuna
		The Yamuna and the Ganges are considered the most sacred rivers in India.
		Yamuna, according to the legends, was the daughter of Surya, the Sun God, and sister to Yama, the God of Death.
		While His father Vasudeva was crossing the Yamuna with baby Lord Krishna for a safe place at Gokul on the other bank of the river from Mathura, the Lord fell down in the river, and by the dust of His lotus feet the river at once became sanctified.
	yap.nic.in /yamuna.asp (381 words)

	Proceedings of the second international symposium on the management of large rivers for fisheries: Volume II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		River Yamuna, the largest tributary (1 376 km long) of Ganga, also arises in the Himalaya from the Yamunotri glacier (6 320 masl) and flows almost parallel to R. Ganga until its confluence with the latter at Allahabad.
		River Yamuna has a series of barrages for hydropower in a 50 km stretch shortly before the water is nearly completely diverted for irrigation at Tajewala.
		The River Yamuna is the most important river after the Ganga and has attracted much attention because Delhi, the capital of India, Agra, the city known for Taj Mahal and Mathura, the birthplace of Lord Krishna, are all located within a stretch of 200 km on its banks.
	www.fao.org /docrep/007/ad526e/ad526e09.htm (5101 words)

	Yamuna -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A little known fact about the Yamuna is that it is the frontier of the (Asian elephant having smaller ears and tusks primarily in the male) Indian elephant.
		West of the Yamuna, there are no (Five-toed pachyderm) elephants to be found over 900 (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)) km of the western (A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain) Himalayas and their foothills.
		The (Land that is covered with trees and shrubs) forests of the lower Yamuna offer ideal corridors for (Five-toed pachyderm) elephant movement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yamuna.htm (185 words)

	Yamuna River -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Eastern and Western Yamuna canals are fed from the river at that point.
		It lies between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, west of the Upper Ganges Plain.
		It was on the south bank of the Yamuna River, outside the city of Agra, that Jahan decided to erect his memorial.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077786?tocId=9077786 (851 words)

	On the Identity and Chronology of the Rigvedic River Sarasvati
		Yamuna in turn is associated with Drishadvati, as can be seen from the Latyayana Srauta-sutra (10.19.8.9): 'He should proceed on the southern bank of Drishadvati.
		The Yamuna originates in the middle Himalayas, from the Yamunotri glacier on the Bandar-punch ('monkey's tail) peak in Garhwal; a short distance from the source of the Bhagirathi which unites with Alakananda to give rise to the Ganga (Mathur 1991).
		In its transition from the naditama to the Vinasana to a mythical river, the Sarasvati traces the stepwise history of the Indo-Aryan migrations from Afghanistan to the Ganga plain.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /ngier/306/contrasarav.htm (4286 words)

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		This holy river Yamuna is under serious threat from pollution and contamination caused by the dumping of large amounts of untreated industrial and domestic waste into the river from the towns of Mathura and Vrindaban.
		The topography of the town is such that the general slope of the town of Mathura is from south to north towards river Yamuna with the result that all the drains rising from any point in the town eventually flow into the river.
		It is the matter of great concern that the glacier Yamnotri at the origin of river Yamuna is melting rapidly due to the excessive heat caused by the horrible destruction of the trees which thus disturb the ecological balance.
	www.auburn.edu /~alleykd/envirolitigators/chaturveditext.htm (921 words)

	How Delhi makes the sprightly Yamuna a 'dead river' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Yamuna catchment area of the National Capital Territory is one per cent of the river’s total catchment area but it generates more than 50% of the pollutants found in the Yamuna.
		Yamuna before the Wazirabad stretch has appreciable levels of dissolved oxygen, low biochemical oxygen demand levels and the water is extensively used for irrigation purposes.
		The present irrigation water requirement in the Yamuna basin is 68.18 billion cubic metres whereas the total available surface water in the basin with 75% dependable flows is 62.8 billion cubic metres.
	www.teriin.org /news/terivsn/issue46/main.htm (929 words)

	Floods in Delhi
		This is very clear from the recurring phenomenon of floods in the mighty river Yamuna and flash floods caused by rains due to choked drains of Delhi.
		River Yamuna enters Delhi from the northeast near Palla at an altitude of 210.3 meters and after traverse of about 40km.
		The flow of Yamuna within Delhi is by and large influenced by discharge from Tajewala Headwork 240 kms upstream.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /Application/natural_hazards/floods/nhcy0008pf.htm (1576 words)

	Yamuna, Rivers In India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		River Tons, which flows along the boundary of Himachal Pradesh, west of district Tehri Garhwal joins Yamuna River at Kalsi and thereafter joins the plains.
		Yamuna flows in a southerly direction through the Himalayan foothills and onto the northern Indian plain, along the Uttar Pradesh-Haryana State border.
		Below Etawah it receives a number of southern tributaries, the largest of which are the Chambal, the Sindh, the Betwa, and the Ken. Near Allahabad, after a course of about 855 miles (1,376 km), the Yamuna joins the Ganges River; their confluence is a sacred place to Hindus.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /uttar-pradesh/rivers/yamuna.html (241 words)

	River Yamuna
		The gradient of the river is steep here and the entire geomorphology of the valley has been influenced by the passage of the river.
		Whatever water flows in the river beyond Okhla barrage is contributed through domestic and industrial wastewater generated from East Delhi, Noida and Sahibabad and joins the river through Shahdara drain.
		Thus, Yamuna river can not be designated as continuous river particularly in dry seasons (almost 9 months), but can be segmented in five distinguished independent segments due to characteristic hydrological and ecological conditions.
	yap.nic.in /yamuna-next.asp (707 words)

	Yamuna Fonudation For Blue Water: Yamuna Quoted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Yamuna cleanup effort by the Yamuna Foundation was also published in India Abroad newspaper a few times and have caused public awareness of this serious pollution problem.
		The Blue Yamuna Team consisting of other members from Delhi and Agra area have been strengthened by this teaming effort of these two experienced individuals from Calcutta (Kolkata).
		Yamuna Foundation for Blue Water (Blue Yamuna), a non-profit organization, is still looking for sincere and progressive volunteers in India.
	yamuna.sdutta.tripod.com /news.html (528 words)

	MATHURA - VRINDAVAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Yamuna River and the Ganges are considered the most sacred rivers in India.
		While His father Vasudeva was crossing the Yamuna with baby Lord Krishna for a safe place at Gokula on the other bank of the river from Mathura, the Lord fell down in the river, and by the dust of His lotus feet the river at once became sanctified." (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.19.6)
		One who takes bath in the river Yamuna is freed from all past sins and contamination of this material world.
	mathuravrindavan.com /mathura1/yamunariver.htm (614 words)

	Flowing in the Thames model
		The Yamuna enters Delhi at the Wazirabad Barrage, at which point water is drawn for Delhi's needs, and the river that flows through the city consists mainly of sewage discharged from 17 drains.
		The first step towards reviving the Yamuna is ensuring that the volume of fresh water in the river is increased.
		An April 2000 report of the CPCB on the "Water quality status of Yamuna river" concludes that an estimated total flow of 18,000 MLD is required to maintain a desirable quality of water.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2221/stories/20051021001305300.htm (1599 words)

	Yamuna Fonudation For Blue Water: Ganga/Yamuna Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The remedial technology options befitting the local conditions of the stretches of Ganga and Yamuna river close to major metropolitan cities, such as, Delhi, Agra, and Varanasi will be the focal point of discussion amongst participants involved in this complex cleanup effort.
		Both Ganga and Yamuna remediation teams will join hands at this conference to review and share experience on the efficacy of the strategies followed so far with a particular focus on the technologies used for river remediation.
		The main objective of this conference is to yield a plan identifying viable remedial options and strategies for the Yamuna river and to draw a parallel for the Ganga river.
	yamuna.sdutta.tripod.com /gyconference.html (450 words)

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		Knowing the Yamuna has a 'nodal' point there and hence never left the spot, the Mughal architects chose it as the location for the Taj so that the sal planks in its base would always be immersed in water.
		By giving the go-ahead for the 'river training works' without ensuring river studies, Mayawati and the tainted officers of the state and Union environment departments might just have succeeded in sounding the death knell for the Taj.
		From the known hydrology of the Yamuna, it is an established fact that peak flooding normally occurs during the end of August or early September.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=204145 (1251 words)

	tribuneindia... Haryana
		The channelisation project, conceptualised by the Delhi Development Authority, plans to utilise the Yamuna river front to ease congestion of land in Delhi.
		The rest of the space on both sides of the river would be used for constructing sky-scrapers and office complexes.
		He said a completely covered parallel channel along the river will be constructed to collect and take the waste water from various drains and nullahs.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jan02/haryana.htm (2794 words)

	UP govt launches probe into tilting Taj Mahal -DAWN - International; 22 October, 2004
		A committee of experts is investigating whether the drying out of the nearby Yamuna river could have affected the 17th-century white mausoleum's foundations, the state government official said on Wednesday.
		Agam Prasad Mathur, a historian and former vice chancellor of Agra University, said the Yamuna river bed must once again be filled to prevent the minaret from tilting further.
		Regular flow of water in the Yamuna is a must...the tilting could be a fallout of scarcity of water in the river," he added.
	www.dawn.com /2004/10/22/int9.htm (555 words)

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		NEW DELHI: For the Union Government cleaning the dying Yamuna will not be an easy task, particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent direction to accomplish the task through an action plan drawn up on the lines of the British Government's success in cleaning up the river Thames in London.
		Interestingly, the condition of the Yamuna today is almost the same as that of the Thames in 1950's, and in 1957, London's Natural History Museum declared the Thames "biologically dead".
		It was after this that the cleaning and rehabilitation work in the river commenced with the British Government improving sewage waste treatment and banning industry from discharging pollutants into the river.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005091313430300.htm&date=2005/09/13/&prd=th& (541 words)

	Yamuna on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Yamuna's confluence with the Ganges is sacred to Hindus; Allahabad is a major pilgrimage center.
		Along the Yamuna's banks are many historic monuments, including the Taj Mahal at Agra.
		Hindus in the Yamuna river in Delhi, India.(Foreign News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/y/yamuna.asp (448 words)

	Proposed plan for Satluj-Ghaggar-Yamuna-Jojari-Luni-Sabarmati River link channels
		The proposed Maru-Ganga river will be 16th major river in terms of length in the Asian continent and 30th river in the world.
		Yamuna Link Channel: In the same rainy season the Uttarakhand region of Himalayas also gets large amount of water due to heavy rain and flood situation occurs in the Yamuna river every year.
		This flood water of Yamuna river which is released from Tejawala feeder can be diverted from Sonipat by removing the soil of Rohatak, Mahendragarh and Hissar districts of Haryana state and Jhujhunu, Mandawa, Mukundgarh, Sikar, Didwana, Degana and Merta in Nagaur district.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /application/nrm/water/watershed/mi03167pf.htm (1736 words)

	Ganges.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At the upper part of the Ganges River, electricity is generated at the waterfalls of the Ganges River.
		Transportation-Most of the transportation in India is by river, and the Ganges is the most important of them.
		People are cremated and dumped in the river because they believe that the river will purify them (cremated people are not burned well because they can't afford much kindle).
	schools.4j.lane.edu /spencerbutte/StudentProjects/Rivers/ganges.html (498 words)

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