The holy river Yamuna is now a declared dead river. If you take a dip in the river anywhere near delhi, even god can't save you then. Delhiites are drinking Yamuna water because they have no other option. We can what is tored for the delhiites in future.

You can smell the river long before reaching anywhere near to the river when you are in Delhi or approaching Delhi. The Delhi government is ignoring the fact the Yamuna, the lifeline of Delhi is dying. There is need to take necessary step to keep the river alive otherwise Delhi will become a dead capital of India.

For the last five decades or so voices are raised from time to time for the necessity to make the Yamuna river, on whose bank, the Mughals shifted their capital to Delhi from Agra, another town on the bank of the river, clean and pollution-free. Mughals never gave a thought to build their capital on the bank of Ganges, the most revered river of India. Yamuna is the largest tributary of the Ganges. Perhaps the might of the Ganges prevented them to do so. From time immemorial, towns are built up on the bank of rivers, but only on one side of the river as the seepage of water runs only on one side of the river, leaving the other side barren.
But the great Mughals never imagined that their dear Yamuna river’s waters will turn polluted and would pose an increasing health hazard to the Indian capital. Even the Supreme Court of India, the apex court in the country and a number of campaigners including profitable NGOs called from time to time for urgent action to clean it up
Hundreds of millions of Indian ruppes of public and private money has been spent on projects to clean the Yamuna river and yet from Delhi onwards till Allahabad where it merges in the Ganges, it is dark, stinking and lifeless – as dead as a handful of ashes.
The water in Yamuna looked as black as pitch. It stenches. Methane bubble up from the depths and plastic bags and other rubbish floated on the surface. It was also difficult to breathe without feeling nauseous. The river gives off a stagnant, stale stench that only got worse as the heat of the morning steadily grew.
Throwing coins into the water is considered pious activity as in the past the coins used to be minted out of copper, a mixture of brass which used to help in cleansing the river. Now the aluminium has replaced the copper but the ancient practice to offer coins to the rivers, often referred to as mothers, continue.