Delhi Volunteers to Pick up Trash March 30The Yamuna Foundation for Blue Water, under the umbrella of the Rivers of the World (ROW) Foundation (www.rowfoundation.org ) has beguns a Campaign to cleanup the Yamuna River on March 30th ,in Delhi in association with Techknow Engineering LLC (Environmental Service India) ,Delhi(www.techknow-eng.com) and Water Community India, Delhi(www.watecommunity.in).
This project in India is in partnership and motivated by a similar project in Washington, DC, USA to Clean-up the Potomac River by the Alice Ferguson Foundation (www.fergusonfoundation.org ). Volunteers met at Kotla Nala(near Kotla Rly colony) on the day and removed trash between 8.30am to12.30pm. Coated gloves had been given to all Volunteers to protect hands and Blue plastic bags had been used to collect recyclable items and orange bags for trash to be disposed. The recyclables had been transported to the municipal recycling center; arrangements were made for the non-recyclables to be picked up by the city garbage collection system.
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.” Dehli Coordinator, Mr. Suresh Nair and D.K. Mital, Mrs. Minakshi Arora and Mr. Siraj Kesar from Water Community India 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 Dehli community to turn this issue around.
In a recent press conference Subijoy Dutta said “We must stop trashing the river we love that is vital to health and livability of everyone in this region. We must make this commitment NOW!”
Rivers of the World (ROW) Foundation Water Community India, Delhi
Yamuna Foundation, Delhi
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