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Basin
Sub Basin Inventory of Water Pollution - The Ganga Basin Part
One
: The Yamuna sub - basin
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Foreword
It
would be rather ambitious and hardly practicable to restore and
maintain all waters at the pristine quality. Planning pollution-control
activities to attain such a goal is bound to be deterrent to developmental
activities and also cost-prohibitive. Natural waters have got to
be used for various competing as well as conflic- ting activities.
Therefore, the aim has been to restore and maintain waters at various
places to such qualities as are needed for their designated best-uses.
With this objective the Central Board for the Prevention and Control
of Water Pollution has undertaken the task of river basinwise pollution
potential assessment to frame control management programmes and
the information available is disseminated through the Assessment
and Development Study of River Basin Series (ADSORBS).
The present publication is the second in the ADSORBS series and
brings to the fore the basin-wise pollu- tional studies conducted
in the Ganga
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which
has held India 's heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her
banks since the dawn of history. Part I of the present treatise covets
the river Yamuna, a major tributary of the Ganga and would be followed
by Part II which would coveF the entire Ganga Basin excluding the
Yamuna Sub-basin. It is believed that this report would be found useful
to the agencies participating in the work of restoring and preserving
the quality of natural water bodies, and would serve as a model for
conducting similar studies in the other major river basins in the
country.
The data in support of this report have been scrutinized, processed
and compiled by Km. Usha Madan and Shri S. K. Agrawal under the overall
supervision of Dr. R. N. Bhattacharyya. Dr. G. D. Agrawal as Con-
sultant, analysed the data and enriched the report with cFitical and
analytical approach which helped in deriving the major recommendations
for implementation of pollution control. Appreciation is also due
to Dr. S. P . Chakrabarti for his association in finalising the report.
Shri Bidhi Chand took the overall responsibility for typing the manuscript.
The Central Board also acknowledges the co-operation of the Center
for Study of Man & Environment, Calcutta in preparing the final maps
and also in printing of the report. The base year of all the statistical
data used in this report is 1975-76. |
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Nilay Chaudhuri
Chairman, CPCB
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