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View this post on Instagram "All waste stagnates here. People come to pray and take a dip, what they see is scum all around,” said Jaal Singh while pushing his boat upstream in hope of a fish catch. “We have seen turtles and gharial in this river. Nowhere to be seen now.” From a river that supported species and traditional occupations , like that of cloth washers, Gomti in Lucknow is today highly polluted. What have made matters worse is concrete taking over the water and insulating the city from its cure. The riverfront development has not only obstructed the exchange of water between river and land but also reduced Gomti’s capacity to flush out the city’s waste. Link in bio (https://india.mongabay.com/2019/02/04/after-pollution-riverfront-development-chokes-lucknows-gomti/) @mongabayindia #riverpollution #gomti #lucknow #boatman #uttarpradesh @lucknow.me @lucknowbytes #photography #picoftheday #instariver #photooftheday #riverfront #igers #everydayindia @uttarpradeshtourism A post shared by manu moudgil (@manu.moudgil) on Feb 4, 2019 at 8:23pm PST
