Rivers Of The World Foundation Plans To Conduct Yamuna Cleanup On March 22

Agra/New Delhi (India) (Mediabharti Syndication Service) 16 March: The Yamuna Foundation for Blue Water, under the umbrella of the Rivers of the World (ROW) Foundation begins a Campaign to cleanup the Yamuna River with Volunteers picking up trash on March 22nd Agra and Delhi. This project in India is in partnership and motivated by a similar project in Washington to Clean-up the Potomac River by the Alice Ferguson Foundation. In both cases, these major rivers are polluted in varying degrees impacting the lifeline of the people living there. Both flow through the Capitals of their countries.

Subijoy Dutta, Executive Director of the Yamuna Foundation for Blue Water announced, “We start now to clean up the Yamuna with our hands. We will continue cleanups until river becomes, once again, clean and blue. The Yamuna River is sacred. It is a life source. We can not continue to trash it!”

The United States partner in the Trash Cleanup Project is The Alice Ferguson Foundation. The Foundation will lead its 22nd Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup in April 2010.

Brij Khandelwal, Editor (Consult), Mediabharti.com and Coordinator of the Agra Yamuna Cleanup, said a sustained mass movement was necessary. "Citizens should stop looking to the government for everything but initiate action on their own to stop further degradation of the river."

The Yamuna River Cleanup in Agra takes place on coming March 22nd. Volunteers will clean up trash from Taj mahal to Poiya Ghat at about a dozen points on the bank of the Yamuna River

Coated gloves will be given to all Volunteers to protect hands and Blue plastic bags will be used to collect recyclable items and orange bags for trash to be disposed. The recyclables will be transported to the municipal recycling center; arrangements are being made for the non-recyclables to be picked up by the city garbage collection system.

Delhi Coordinator, Suresh Nair and DK Mital for the Yamuna River Cleanup are committed to the Yamuna Foundations’ motto “…to turn the Yamuna Blue” and agrees that it will take a major effort on the part of all sectors of the Delhi community to turn this issue around.

As in Agra, similar gloves and bags will be used. The recyclables will be transported to the municipal recycling center; arrangements are being made for the non-recyclables to be picked up by the city garbage collection system.

After the Trash Cleanups, information, along with pictures, will be released publicly about how much volume/weight and types (paper, plastics, soda cans, bulk items, such as tires etc.) of trash collected.