Yeah . This statement swings both ways , but there ' s an inherent disconnect in our voting system . Due to the nature of the beast the candidates simply punt on any advertising or campaigning in states they have no hope in carrying . It might make things more interesting if we split the college voters based on percentage in their state . It also might make that magic number harder to achieve . <| sep |> Makes sense since even friends can ' t see banned profiles . <| sep |> Turn the ' Automatic ' toggle ON . <| sep |> Rex doesn ' t start with discipline on defense so boba has a chance . A decent rex team on offense however beats boba every time <| sep |> But . She did it . <| sep |># How pollution killed the H i n d o n s u t r a h i n d o n u t t a r p radeshdeadriverimgleadimg . jpgAt Baleni village in Baghpat , the water which merges wth Krishni and Kali tributaries , is plentiful , but foulsmelling . Photo by Chahat RamFaiz Ali ' s daughter was 28 and wife 48 when both died of cancer within five years . Before Ali could come to terms with the loss , his brother , too , was diagnosed with cancer . Ali himself is battling a skin ailment . Their scourge the Hindon river that not so long ago used to be their lifeline . A former pradhan of Begrajpur village in Muzaffarnagar district of western Uttar Pradesh , 55 yearold Ali says the Hindon has become a dumping ground for municipal and industrial waste . The biggest casualties are the villagers , for whom the only source of water has turned into a repository of infections and diseases . And as political parties gear up for the 2017 UP elections , the Hindon , which impacts 34 assembly constituencies in the region , has barely found a mention in their agenda . Sandwiched between the polluted Kali , a Hindon tributary , on one side and a nullah brimming with industrial effluents merging into it on the other , Begrajpur is one of the 400 villages of western UP whose lives depended on the Hindon . But not any more . Faiz Ali , 55 of Begrajpur notes that Hindon has become repository for diseases due to the industrial waste that is being dumped into the river . Photo by Chahat RamOnce a lifeline , now a ' dead river ' Official records say that 151 of the 400 villages on the banks of the river , including Begrajpur , have reported ailments like cancer , neurological and digestive disorders and skin and respiratory infection due to the contaminated water . Abdul Qadir Ansari , 88 , has been witness to the ' slow death ' of the river that passes through his village back yard . The deterioration , he says , started in the 1980 s when factories started coming up in the area . Until then , he recalls , the villagers would drink from it . Jitna khana nahi khate , us se dugna yahan log dawaiyan khate hain People here consume more medicines than food . he adds . Hindon is most polluted tributary of Uttar Pradesh Average total coliform most probable number per 100 millileters water at ten most polluted river water monitoring stations in Uttar Pradesh , 2014 SOURCE Central Pollution Control Board , Water Quality Database , 2014 Also known as Harnandi , the rainfed Hindon originates in the lower Himalayas of neighbouring Uttarakhand . Joined by its two tributaries Kali and Krishni it flows through seven western UP districts before confluence with the Yamuna in Gautam Buddha Nagar . The pollution levels here have earned it a ' dead river ' status and its water declared ' unfit ' even for bathing , according to the Central Pollution Control Board report of 2015 . From being a lifeline , the river is now reduced to a carrier of industry waste . It is now a poisonladen drain that has contaminated the water table that feeds the hand pumps , bore wells and tube wells , says river activist Krishan Pal . At Baleni village in Baghpat , where the ancient Balmiki Ashram stands on its bank , the water , after Krishni and Kali tributaries merge with it , is plentiful , but foulsmelling . Rivers don ' t bring votes , says Lakhsdevanji Maharaj , the head priest of the ashram . Raman Tyagi , of the Natural Environmental Education and Research NEER Foundation , agrees , From being a lifeline , the river is now reduced to a carrier of industry waste . Political Inertia As political parties kickstart their 2017 campaign , some villages have decided to boycott the polls and polio immunisation drives to mount pressure on the government . We will not vote unless something concrete is done , says Ram Kumar , 42 , a farmer of Kinoni village in Saharanpur . Nudged by civil society , the state government was forced to wake up last year . Following an initiative by waterman Rajendra Singh , chief minister Akhilesh Yadav launched an awareness yatra for Hindon . Also , a working group led by planning commission member Prof Sudhir Panwar , set up to study the river , visited the region . The government allocated Rs 2 Crore from the budget for preliminary action plan . The rural development department is allocating funds to provide clean drinking water in the villages by installing overhead tanks as per NGT directions , says Prof Panwar . But all this will take at least 10 years . The activists are not impressed . The government only makes announcements , says activist Pal who was part of the yatra . In Kinoli village , the strong flow of Hindon of the river is an anomaly . The rest of the river has no continuous flow . Photo by Chahat RamVersion 0 . 5 b Function I post the article ' s text as a comment if the website is adblocker unfriendly . I accept commands ! Powered by