Can we call Yamuna a river in Delhi?

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Steve Fleischli, Waterkeeper Alliance's Executive Director is of the view[hyperlink] that the polluted Yamuna still has a future if sustained programmes and community participation takes place. He said:

" …around 50 years ago, even the Hudson river in

New York was as bad as the Yamuna … the trick ..lay in investing generously in sewage treatment plants…"

Waterkeeper Alliance is an environmental organization responding to destructive industrial pollution that was destroying the rivers.

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