Odyssey “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

BANGLADESH | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [922] | View Smaller Image

The river is used as a garbage yard by illegal factories and tanneries to dump their untreated waste without impediment. Moreover, rampant urbanization is choking the river. The land grabbers will, in the near future, evanesce the river with their current rate of illegal encroachment.

The Buriganga river has been transformed to a drain due to various human activities. Human-induced substances like detergents, disinfection by-products, polythene, cosmetic products, food processing waste, chemical waste and other debris contaminate the water. The pollution often causes toxic algal blooms, which reduces oxygen levels in the murky river,disrupting aquatic life and depleting almost all species of fish. The river is now considered to be biologically dead.

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Inorganic waste and animal carcasses bobbing on the surface of the murky waters is a very common sight. Raw sewage, untreated industrial waste, food waste, medical waste, polythene bags, oil spill, the dying Buriganga has it all.

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Odyssey “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

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