India's Dying Rivers: How Our Cities Are Choking Their Lifelines As India hurtles towards becoming one of the world's largest economies, its cities are quietly strangling the rivers that sustain them.
The Yamuna, Sahibi, Musi, and Ganga, once revered as sacred entities, now struggle to survive under the weight of urbanization, pollution, and mismanagement.
The statistics paint a dire picture: the Yamuna has shrunk by nearly 68% over the past two centuries, its floodplains gobbled up by encroaching development.