Gomti River

The Gomti river (also known as Gomati river) is nine hundred kilometres in length and starts out life in Fulhar Lack, Pilibhit India before winding through Uttar Pradesh to join the River Ganges making it a tributary river.

For most of its journey the Gomti River is a thin stream to a small river in size before it widens to a large river about one hundred kilometres into its journey to the Ganges.

In Hindu myth the river is deemed very important and is seen as the daughter of Vashistha who was a sage. It is believed in Hindu myth that washing in certain areas of the Gomti river on the eleventh day of the Sanatana Dharma-Hindu calendar will cleanse a person of any sins they may have done.

The cities of Lucknow, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sultanpur and Jaunpur are located on the banks of the Gomti river. These cities have many industrial factories that pump alot of industrial waste and effluent which has caused much pollution threatening the wildlife both in the water and at the waters edge.