Indians try to clean filth from river in New Delhi

The volunteers hope the Commonwealth Games coming to New Delhi in October — the athletes' village is located on the river bank — will finally spur action to clean up what has become an embarrassment to the government and a public health crisis for the city.

The river water looks dark with a foul smell and some human waste flowing from city drains.

A tributary of one of India's main rivers, the Ganges, the Yamuna is small but swells during monsoon rains. Hindu worshippers bathe in the river during religious festivals, but not many people swim there.

Nearly 800 people, mostly young students, worked to clean the river and its banks early Wednesday. Some of them got into motorized boats to scoop the filth from the river in barrels.

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