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 over the course of time carries sewage due to pollution.
For the past few years efforts are being made to revive the dying river by the means of projects.

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.
There have been several attempts to clean the river since 1985, but none of them have materialised till date.