Present scenario of Kali River along with Farrukhabad district

Abstract

    Kali River is originated from Muzaffarnagar district and merges in Ganga River near Kannauj district. It passes though Meerut, Bulandsahar, Aligarh, Etah and Farrukhabad district. It is also known as Naagan River in Muzaffarnagar. The river receives sewage and Industrial effluents from cities like Muzaffarnagar, Modinagar, Bulandsahar, Hapur, Farrukhabad and Kannauj as well as waste water from slaughter houses in Meerut. It is the one other rivers targeted for cleaning up by the National Ganga river basin authority. The river toxicity is said to be causing cancer and death in villages along its banks.

 Samples from the river have shown zero oxygen levels, making it unfit for drinking or irrigation but at near the Aligarh it is clean at some level due to merging of excessive clean water. In Farrukhabad district, the anthropological activity such as bathing of cattle’s, throwing the dead bodies of cattle’s, excessive use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides in crops near the bank of Kali river polluted this river.

 Moreover, excessive numbers of drainage also fall in the Kali River, causing more polluted to Kali river in Farrukhabad district. Hence, there is urgent need to clean Kali river for drinking and irrigation purposes.

Keywords:- Kali river, pollution, anthropological activity, Farrukhabad, Naagan river