The Great Yamuna Lie
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The Great Yamuna Lie
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Every winter, the Yamuna turns white — not with snow, but with toxic foam.
In November, the froth returned yet again near Kalindi Kunj and the Okhla barrage, just weeks after Chhath Puja, reviving an uncomfortable question: why does India’s most worshipped river still look like this despite decades of clean-up efforts and crores of public money spent?
In this episode of Mission Planet A, host Rupa unpacks The Great Yamuna Lie. From untreated sewage and industrial discharge to detergent-laden wastewater and riverbed pollution, we trace the real reasons behind the recurring froth. Using pollution data, ground reports, and health insights, the episode explains why just 22 kilometres of the Yamuna flowing through Delhi accounts for nearly three-fourths of the river’s pollution.
We also look at the human cost — skin infections, respiratory distress, and long-term health risks faced by communities and devotees who continue to enter the river — and examine why repeated clean-up announcements fail to translate into real change on the ground.
This is not a story of sudden pollution.
It’s a story of systemic failure, misplaced priorities, and accountability delayed.
