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
Raw hide bar for Hazribagh tanneries from Apr 1
Government decides that raw hide will not be allowed in the tanneries at Hazaribagh in Dhaka from April 1 in order to force the tanneries to relocate out of the capital.
Action against river polluters
There are several ways our rivers are being gradually killed off. There have been illegal encroachments of many important rivers around the capital and this has gone on with impunity.
River polluters warned
Millions of gallons of untreated wastewaters, mainly from industries, are being dumped into the rivers around Dhaka city through as many as 185 outlets every day.
71-km human chain formed to save Turag
Environmentalists form a 71-km-long human chain on the banks of the Turag River demanding an end to pollution and grabbing of the river.
