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Pan left over various riverside art installations2. Various of installation by artist Sheba Chhachhi 3. Wide of artist Gigi Scaria's 'Fountain of Purification'4. Tilt up...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television               \u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi, India - November 15, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan left over various riverside art installations\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of installation by artist Sheba Chhachhi \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of artist Gigi Scaria's 'Fountain of Purification'\u003cbr/\u003e4. Tilt up shot of 'Fountain of Purification' spouting muddy water\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid pull of train crossing iron bridge\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of boat and birds on river\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pull focus from grass to river birds\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ravi Agarwal, co-curator, Project Y\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is about the Yamuna and the Elbe, which are very different rivers in one way, but also very similar. Similar because both are flood plain rivers, both are very central to the cities themselves, but also the idea that one day, the Yamuna can be like the Elbe because Elbe is this very engineered river which is completely clean, but has this big debate of how much more to engineer it or to un-engineer it. There is a big debate in Europe about rivers, and here, we believe that by engineering it more and making it more like a water channel we will reach this perfect river and you look at the perfect river and it's not perfect, it has its own questions.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide pan left from one riverbank to another with the iron bridge in the background\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of river with Chhachhi's installation and Scaria's art visible in background\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of birds flying over the water surface\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Asim Waqif's art installation made of recycled mineral water bottles \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Asim Waqif, artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's sort of a very unusual sort of change that has happened where suddenly the water that people used to use, they have to suddenly buy it from sort of a source and those... that bottling situation is also putting a lot of pressure on natural resources in some way. So, that's why I wanted to use bottles, but I didn't want to make it like a vulgar, grotesque, recycled sort of a thing. Instead, I was looking at making almost a pretty form which would then attract people because most people's impression of the river is that it's just a sewage canal you know. So by providing some sort of an interesting thing I am hoping that people will be sort of pushed into thinking that there are other possibilities for the river.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of visitor taking a picture\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of a former riverbank resident Ishwar Sharma singing a song\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of audience seated at the makeshift amphitheatre\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of Sharma singing a song describing the plight of daily wage labourers\u003cbr/\u003e18. Cutaway of labourers\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (Hindi) Ishwar Sharma, carpenter\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think till they continue dumping sewage water into the Yamuna, the situation of Yamuna cannot improve. It is something which is very harmful for the environment. The Hindus take a holy dip in the Yamuna at the time of festivals, but looking at its present state, no one dares to do it anymore.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of people bathing and washing at weed-clogged banks of the river\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of train crossing over the iron bridge\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ravi Agarwal, co-curator, Project Y\u003cbr/\u003e\"The river will certainly be clean in the next few years. I think, we will have a cleaner river. There are other challenges of how much water there is going to be in it, or what happens to the landscape. I think, the idea of land itself is under greater pressure because city is now a 17 million people city and it wants every inch of land there is. Where we are standing on, is river land. It was two and half meters of water last year, so it belongs to the river and so...what is a flood plain? Is it land or is it river bed? And I think that is going to be the challenge - how do we keep the land of the river alive.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Pan right over the exhibition area\u003cbr/\u003e24. Pan over ramp made of sand bags\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid of artist Nana Petzet's biodiversity patch \u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of Chhachhi's art form\u003cbr/\u003eAn open air art exhibition in New Delhi is hoping to regenerate the city's polluted river Yamuna.\u003cbr/\u003eThe collaborative project between Indian and German artists hopes to attract more of New Delhi's residents down to the riverside.\u003cbr/\u003eArt by water.\u003cbr/\u003eMost cities don't need to find a reason to attract people to the riverside - it is often the hottest real estate in town. But in Delhi it's a different story.\u003cbr/\u003eThe reason? For most of the year the river resembles little more than a sewage drain.\u003cbr/\u003eThe rainy season of July-August sees the river in full flow, although it's still dirty.   \u003cbr/\u003eThe public art initiative - with works by four Indian artists and four German artists - links the Yamuna with Hamburg's Elbe river. \u003cbr/\u003eA 19th Century span bridge forms the backdrop to an ongoing Indo-German art project along the river Yamuna in India's capital city. \u003cbr/\u003eCo-curator Ravi Agarwal, an artist and an environmentalist, says the Yamuna and the Elbe are similar in many aspects but also very different. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It is about the Yamuna and the Elbe, which are very different rivers in one way but also very similar. Similar because both are flood plain rivers, both are very central to the cities themselves but also the idea that one day, the Yamuna can be like the Elbe because Elbe is this very engineered river which is completely clean but has this big debate of how much more to engineer it or to un-engineer it. There is a big debate in Europe about rivers and here, we believe that by engineering it more and making it more like a water channel we will reach this perfect river and you look at the perfect river and it's not perfect, it has its own questions,\" says Agarwal. \u003cbr/\u003eWith the Loha Pul as the background, lies Sheba Chhachhi's female form.\u003cbr/\u003eIts legs act as a trap for the Yamuna's bounty, discarded plastic bottles, Marigold garlands thrown by worshippers and the floating carcass of a pig. \u003cbr/\u003eAnother installation is Gigi Scaria's 'Fountain of Purification'. \u003cbr/\u003eResembling the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the installation pumps the river water through five levels of a tower to spurt muddy water from the top.   \u003cbr/\u003eAll the material used by the artists to produce their works is eco-friendly and most of it is recycled.\u003cbr/\u003eLike Asim Waqif, who has used empty mineral water bottles with LED lights in them to form a bobbing row in the water. \u003cbr/\u003eWaqif says he wanted to create something pretty that would force people to think of the Yamuna as more than a sewage canal. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's sort of a very unusual change that has happened where suddenly the water that people used to use, they have to suddenly buy it from sort of a source and those... that bottling situation is also putting a lot of pressure on natural resources in some way. So, that's why I wanted to use bottles, but I didn't want to make it like a vulgar, grotesque, recycled sort of a thing. Instead, I was looking at making almost a pretty form which would then attract people because most people's impression of the river is that it's just a sewage canal, so by providing some sort of an interesting thing I am hoping that people will be sort of pushed into thinking that there are other possibilities for the river,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003eThe site of the exhibition housed slums till 2004. \u003cbr/\u003eIshwar Sharma, a carpenter by profession, was a resident of the Yamuna pushta.\u003cbr/\u003eHe has little hopes for the river until the drainage of sewage into the river is stopped. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think till they continue dumping sewage water into the Yamuna, the situation of Yamuna cannot improve. It is something which is very harmful for the environment. The Hindus take a holy dip in the Yamuna at the time of festivals, but looking at its present state, no one dares to do it anymore,\" says Sharma.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite a Supreme Court ruling ordering the cleanup of a river that supplies 70 per cent of New Delhi's water, the Yamuna remains filthy.  \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the Central Pollution Control Board, around 70 per cent of the pollution in the Yamuna is human excrement. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Yamuna Action Plan, launched in 1993, has met with little success despite billions being spent on it. \u003cbr/\u003eAgarwal is more hopeful. He thinks a bigger challenge will be conserving the river land.    \u003cbr/\u003e\"The river will certainly be clean in the next few years. I think, we will have a cleaner river. There are other challenges of how much water there is going to be in it, or what happens to the landscape. 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