river pollution
Why do policymakers care so little about pollution?
Each day of inaction translates to more lives lost
No industrial zones at the cost of rivers
Save the Shitalakkhya River from extreme pollution
In pictures: Buriganga blackened
The intense degradation of its water quality has long been detrimental to the environment and the river ecosystem.
Rivers cannot be sectioned off for personal gains
Pabna district administration in breach of jalmahal policy and High Court orders
Rivers, one by one, are losing navigability
Government must take steps to restore our rivers
Will rivers exist only in nostalgia?
It’s time for the government to take the death of our lifelines seriously
As our rivers lay dying
Rivers don’t live anymore, they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free -- or as a character in their own story, as told through poetry and music.
Indifference is killing our canals
Cumilla EPZ authorities must answer for pollution of canals
Shall we just bow to illegal sand lifters?
Government must take stern action against those lifting sand from Jamuna, Meghna
Rhetoric cannot save our rivers
State minister’s words must be followed by proper action
Mahfuz Anam Writes: In ‘Smart Bangladesh,’ how smart is it to kill our rivers?
As if in vengeance we have been ferociously and relentlessly destroying our rivers in, what can only be termed as, a suicidal streak.
What good is the status of 'living entities' if rivers continue to be choked?
Government must take urgent steps to reduce plastic pollution
Can we reimagine rivers before it is too late?
It is a tragic irony that riverine Bangladesh has become the land of dying rivers.
Execution of law, accountability essential to save rivers: Speakers
Ensuring accountability of government agencies in-charge of conserving rivers, empowering National River Conservation Commission (NRCC), enhancing the institutional capacity, and executing concerned laws with political commitment are some of the essential factors to save the country’s rivers, speakers in a roundtable discussion have said.
Set up ETPs to stop dumping wastes into Buriganga: HC
High Court has directed owners of seven factories for setting up separate effluent treatment plants (ETPs) in order to stop dumping their wastes into the Buriganga river and to save it from pollution.
Halda Pollution: Ctg power plant fined
A peaking power plant in Hathazari has been ordered to suspend operation after officials found that it had been polluting the Halda river.
Bangladesh among countries with highest antibiotic river pollution: Study
Bangladesh is among the countries with the highest levels of antibiotic river pollution along with Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan and Nigeria, a study revealed yesterday.
Louhajang River: Textile mill fined Tk 51 lakh for pollution
The Alauddin Textile Mills, which had been polluting the Louhajang River in Tangail for long now, has been fined.
Louhajang River: Palette of pollution
At a certain location, the Louhajang River occasionally changes its colour. Sometimes it turns red, sometimes yellow, and sometimes purple. But it is not out of some natural event. It is man-made.
