Our Filthy River

More than textile factories crowd the river banks, pouring toxic dyes and chemicals into the water, and raw sewage freely flows into it. The Jakarta Environmental Management Agency reported that there is "no clean water in Jakarta's rivers.

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The waste has so devastated the ecosystem that dead fish always dot the surface. As a result, many fishermen have given up their trade and instead harvest plastic waste from the surface to recycle. Slums and shantytowns swarm the shores of the Pasig river, in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

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Sewage and garbage pour daily into the river from the communities living alongside it. Similar to the Ganges and Citarum river, the Pasig also absorbs enormous amounts of industrial runoff. Air Pollution Is Killing 6. The Tara River cuts through Montenegro, Bosnia, and Herzegovina and is fed by pristine sources of water.

The water is so clean that you can drink from it. It hosts a vibrant array of plant and animal life. And the river is also a favorite for river rafters and hikers from around the world. Several attempts to build dams along the river have been stopped because of intense opposition. The Tara is beloved in the area and nobody wants to see harm come its way.

Located in Southwestern Ireland, the Caragh river flows through lush greenery and farmland. The river suffers very little pollution and is one of the top salmon-catching locations in Ireland.

Ireland is known for its clean, quiet landscapes and the Caragh river is no exception. Parts of the river are protected under a national law for conservation. The River Thames is an environmental success story. Fifty years ago, the river was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead. In the 19th century people regularly contracted cholera from the water and died. Then the government launched an ambitious restoration campaign that banned factories from dumping pollution into the water and installed water treatment plants all along its course.

Over time, the river began to recover and today it is widely regarded as the cleanest river in the world that flows through a major city. The X factor for the health of all the rivers in the world is humanity. Humans can live in harmony with rivers, ensuring the quality of the water and protecting ecosystems.

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Or humans can recklessly destroy rivers with garbage and waste. The good news is that all rivers can be cleaned if the willpower is mustered. Sign in to start taking action. Sign up Sign in with Facebook or. This account has been deactivated. Take Action Rewards Festival Impact. Just a few decades ago, Indians across the nation would walk down to the local stream or river to collect drinking water, wash their clothes, take a bath or just swim and enjoy themselves.

Today, doing anything of this sort is out of the question and can have serious health consequences. And yet, Indians cannot turn away from these rivers. They are the lifelines of the nation, and the future of India is in many ways tied to the health of our rivers.

But this is not an insurmountable problem. It can be addressed in a short period and with technologies that already exist. What is needed are stringent laws and the necessary determination to implement them.

We do not have to go and clean the rivers; if we stop polluting them, they will clean themselves in one flood season. Agricultural runoff is harmful to rivers because of the use of chemicals for cultivation, which has become the norm today. This can be rectified if farmers are supported to move to organic cultivation. If our farmers are to get good yields and make a living out of agriculture, the soil does not need chemical inputs, it needs organic content. Soil will be healthy only if we can put leaves from the trees and animal waste back into it. If you take away this organic content, we are effectively turning soil into sand and making it unfit for cultivation.

This is a sure recipe for the desertification of the land that has provided us with food for thousands of years. Incentivizing farmers to shift to organic cultivation is therefore not just a necessity for our rivers; it is also essential to ensure the food security of the nation and the well-being of hundreds of millions of farmers.

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Point source pollution is generally chemical and industrial waste from industries or domestic sewage from towns and cities. One important aspect in towns and cities is that just as electricity, water and gas are metered, sewage should be too, with households and industries paying according to the meter. Right now the way chemical and industrial waste is handled in India is that the polluting industry itself is expected to clean its effluent before letting it out into the river.

In effect, this just leads to many industries treating their effluent only when the inspectors are present. When there is no one overseeing them, many industries release untreated effluent into the rivers. If we want this treatment process to be effective, it is important that effluent treatment itself be made into a lucrative business proposition.

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If your effluent is my business, I will not let you release your untreated waste into the river. I will make it my business to get your effluent and treat it.



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The government, in this case, will only have to set the norm on the water quality being released into the river. There is no such thing as waste.