Kali River (Uttar Pradesh): Difference between revisions

{{Distinguish|KaliSharda River (Uttarakhand)}}

| name_nativenative_name = Kali

| name_native_langnative_name_lang =

| image = Kali Nadi (Bulandshahr).jpg

| image_caption = Kali Nadi through Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh

| subdivision_type5 = City

| subdivision_name5 = Muzaffar Nagar

| source1 = Rajaji Range, [[DoonSivalik ValleyHills]]

| source1_location = Uttarakhand, [[IndiaUttar Pradesh]]

The '''Kali River''', commonly known as '''Kali Nadi''',<ref name=Khan1987>{{cite journal |last1=Khan |first1=Zahoor Ali |title=Kali Nadi: The History of a River |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1987 |volume=48 |pages=741–749 |jstor=44141794 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44141794 |issn=2249-1937|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Growse1884>{{cite book |last1=Growse |first1=Frederic S. |title=Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural |date=1884 |publisher=Medical Hall Press |location=Benares |pages=1–2 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/bulandshahrorsk00growgoog/page/n24/mode/2up?q=river |language=English |chapter=1. Bulandshahr}}</ref> originates in the [[DoonSivalik ValleyHills|Upper Sivaliks]] and passes through [[Saharanpur district|Saharanpur]], [[Muzaffarnagar district|Muzaffarnagar]] and [[BagpatBaghpat district]]s, before merging with [[Hindon River]] (at [[Barnava]], Bagpat[[Baghpat]]), which goes on to merge with the [[Yamuna River]] (near [[Delhi]]), which itself goes to merge with the [[Ganga River]], which finally merges with the [[Bay of Bengal]]. The total length of the river from its origin up to its confluence with the Hindon river is 150 &nbsp;km. The river is named Kali, because ofafter the Hindu Goddessgoddess [[Kali]].<ref name="Hydrology and water resources of India">Hydrology and water resources of India By Sharad K. Jain, Pushpendra K. Agarwal, Vijay P. Singh,p. 349 Springer, The Netherlands. {{ISBN|1-4020-5179-4}}.</ref>

The Kali River is quite polluted from both raw sewage and industrial discharges.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Pathak, Sugandha|date=August 2011|title=No helping hand for Kali|publisher=Civil Society Online|url=http://www.civilsocietyonline.com/Archive/aug11/aug1110.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419000516/http://www.civilsocietyonline.com/Archive/aug11/aug1110.htm|archivedate=19 April 2013|deadurlurl-status=nolive}}</ref><ref name=hy2007>{{cite book |title=Hydrology and water resources of India- Volume 57 of Water science and technology library - Tributaries of Yamuna river|last=Jain |first=Sharad K.|author2=Pushpendra K. Agarwal |author3=Vijay P. Singh |year=2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4020-5179-1|pages=349–350 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKs1gBhJSWIC&pg=PA349|chapter=8. Ganga basin }}</ref> It is one of the rivers that is targeted for clean-up under the [[National Ganga River Basin Authority]] (NGRBA).<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Ganga River Basin Project, Design Review and Advisory Services Inception Report – Final |url=http://www.ganga-river-project.com/04_resultats/documents/Fasep_NGRBA_Inception%20Report_rev1.pdf |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419002101/http://www.ganga-river-project.com/04_resultats/documents/Fasep_NGRBA_Inception%20Report_rev1.pdf |archivedate=2013-04-19 |df= }}</ref>