Kahn River
The river Kahn or Khan as it is now known is a river flowing through Indore, the commercial capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It doesn't contain freshwater but instead has become polluted Ganga of MP [1] over the course of time carries sewage due to pollution.
| Kahn River | |
|---|---|
 The polluted Kahn river in Indore. | |
| Native name | Khan |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| State | Madhya Pradesh |
| Cities | Indore, Sanwer, Ujjain |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Indore, India |
| Mouth | |
• location | Ujjain, India |
| Length | 21 km (13 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Saraswati River (MP) |
For the past few years efforts are being made to revive the dying river by the means of projects.[2][3]
Pollution and environmental concerns
Khan has turned into a sewage dumpyard, where many industries have been dumping solid as well as liquid wastes into it, since the rapid industrialisation in the 70s.
As an additional load, the household drainage is also dumped into the Kahn without any purification or cleaning.[4]
There have been several attempts to clean the river since 1985, but none of them have materialised till date.[5]
Source
The Kahn rises from the Kakri Bardi hills which is also the source of the Shipra River.
Kahn later joins Shipra, which further joins into Chambal, then Yamuna and finally into the Ganga river.
See also
References
- Jha, Bagish (4 January 2013). "Polluted Khan river". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- "Cleaning of Kahn river". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- "Ensure Waste not dumped". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- "The story of Kahn: A river swallowed by the spreading city of Indore". CatchNews.com. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- "Khan river to get a new lease of life - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 December 2018.