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These cities and facilities actively contribute to the river's pollution by dumping untreated waste into it. [17] One coal-based power plant on the banks of the Pandu River, a Ganges tributary, burns 600,000 tons of coal each year and produces 210,000 tons of fly ash. The ash is dumped into ponds, where a slurry is filtered, mixed with domestic ...
Untreated industrial and civic waste [85] Yamuna: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, India: 57 million people [86] Second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge, and the longest tributary in India. Accounts for more than 70 percent of Delhi's water supply. Highly venerated in Hinduism and worshipped as the goddess Yamuna.
The main source of pollution is untreated domestic and industrial wastewater. [31] Only one third of Philippine river systems are considered suitable for public water supply. [32] It is estimated that in 2025, water availability will be marginal in most major cities and in 8 of the 19 major river basins. [33]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed $3 billion in 2015 to clean up the waterway that provides drinking water for 400 million people.
Category: Industrial buildings in the Philippines. 2 languages. ... Oil refineries in the Philippines (2 P) P. Power stations in the Philippines (4 C, 1 P) S.
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a Singapore-based nonprofit group set up two years ago by big oil and chemical companies, said on its website in November 2019 that its partnership with Renew ...
Buildings and structures in Metro Manila (35 C, 5 P) Buildings and structures in Mindanao (21 C, 4 P) Lists of buildings and structures in the Philippines (6 C, 21 P)
Submerged homes at a village in Ilagan, Isabela province on Nov. 18, due to continuous heavy rains from Super Typhoon Man-yi. Filipinos cleared fallen trees and repaired damaged houses after the ...