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
Surma choked with garbage
The Surma river in Sylhet is on the verge of becoming another Buriganga, environmentalists fear.
What are we doing to save our water sources?
Various reports on the occasion of World Water Day, observed on March 22, have brought the terrible foreboding of a scenario in which we will literally run out of water.
Big industries killing Halda
Waste from large factories and a housing estate are polluting the Halda river in Chattogram to the extent that it caused fish die-offs, according to a report of the Department of Environment.
Onslaught on Karatoa on
The Karatoa is facing a fatal threat. The famous river is shrinking, at some points by a fifth of its total width, due to widespread grabbing along its banks in Bogura's Sadar upazila, according to a government survey and locals.
Industrial waste killing Halda fish
Hundreds of dead fish have been floating in the Halda river near the port city over the last few days following a suspected pollution by factories on its banks.
Poisoning the Dhaleshwari
After the Buriganga, the tannery industry is now polluting the Dhaleshwari river, as the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) for treating liquid waste and hazardous chemicals is yet to be fully operational.
Halda losing fish species
The Halda river, the lone source of natural carp breeding in South Asia, lost 26 of its fish species in the past seven years because of
Save rivers from pollution
Expressing concern over the ongoing pollution in Dhaleswari River because of dumping of tannery waste, green activists yesterday said
Plan to revive battered Buriganga
With all the previous efforts to save Buriganga river going in vain, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon yesterday came up with a plan to revive the river.
Losing fish to tobacco
As the nation's and possibly South Asia's major natural breeding ground for carp fishes like ruhi, katol and mrigal (Indian carp) from where fishermen collect spawns, the 98-kilometre Halda River that runs through Khagrachhari is unique.
