page_title: Gomti River
section_title: Pollution
hierarchical_section_title: Gomti River / Pollution
caption_attribution_description: English: Gomati River at Sitapur
context_page_description: The Gomti, Gumti or Gomati River is a tributary of the Ganges.
  According to Hindu beliefs, the river is the daughter of Rishi Vashist and bathing in the Gomti on Ekadashi can wash away sins. According to Bhagavata Purana one of Hinduism's major religious works, the Gomti is one of India's transcendental rivers. The rare Gomti Chakra is found there.
context_section_description: The Gomti River is polluted at several points of its course through the 940-kilometre (580 mi) stretch of alluvial plains in Uttar Pradesh. The major sources of pollution are industrial waste and effluent from sugar factories and distilleries and residential wastewater and sewage.
  The river and its tributaries, such as Kukrail Drainage, collect large amounts of human and industrial pollutants as they flow through an area of about 18 million people. High pollution levels threaten the Gomti's aquatic life. On 25 July 2008, the foundation stone of a 345-million-litre (91,000,000 US gal)-capacity sewage treatment plant was laid.
  The plant, promoted as Asia's largest, failed; in 2014 it was reportedly running at 10 percent of capacity, and beyond the plant (near Bharwara) untreated sewage and solid waste entered the river. The plant was intended to intercept the 23 major natural drains entering the Gomti.
caption: The Gomti in Sitapur district
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