Watch: Boats, water cannons, barricades put to clear Yamuna foam for Chhath Puja

After the videos of devotees in Delhi praying amid toxic foam in the Yamuna river on the occasion of Chhath Puja created outrage, Delhi government has acted to clear the froth.

The Delhi government on Wednesday deployed boats and water sprays to clear the toxic foam ahead of the main Chhath puja of the third day of the four-day festival.

Video showed boats zipping on the river and water being sprayed to dissipate the foam that has engulfed the Yamuna over the past few days.

Not just that, the government also placed bamboo barricades to stop the foam from floating towards the ghats, where puja is done.

The images of devotees praying amid foam also sparked a political slugfest between the ruling AAP and the BJP in Delhi.

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While the BJP leaders alleged that the AAP government did not allow Chhath celebrations on the Yamuna banks to hide the "pathetic" state of the river, the AAP leaders blamed the governments in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana for the frothing in the river.

The 22-kilometre stretch of the Yamuna between Wazirabad and Okhla, which is less than 2 per cent of its length of 1,370 kilometres from Yamunotri to Allahabad, accounts for around 80 per cent of the pollution load in the river.

The presence of phosphates and surfactants in untreated sewage from Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh is a major reason behind frothing in the river, according to experts.