{"id":4126,"date":"2026-10-26T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:38:55","slug":"severe-industrial-wastewater-pollution-in-indias-yamuna-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/severe-industrial-wastewater-pollution-in-indias-yamuna-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Industrial Wastewater Pollution in India\u2019s Yamuna River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A water pollution incident has erupted in the Mathura region of Uttar Pradesh, India. A section of the Yamuna River has turned an abnormal blue-black color due to the illegal discharge of untreated industrial wastewater from several textile dyeing factories along its banks. Water quality tests show that concentrations of heavy metals such as chromium, cadmium, and lead exceed safety standards by dozens of times. The pollution has also caused massive fish kills in this section of the river. Farmland that relies on river water for irrigation has been contaminated, resulting in reduced crop yields or complete crop failure, and both the livelihoods and health of villagers have been adversely affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A water pollution incident has erupted in the Mathura region of Uttar Pradesh, India. A section of the Yamuna River has turned an abnormal blue-black color due to the illegal discharge of untreated industrial wastewater from several textile dyeing factories along its banks. Water quality tests show that concentrations of heavy metals such as chromium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":13,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4128,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}