Save river water from pollution
Rivers are the lifelines of Bangladesh. The main rivers here are 230 but due to pollution, occupation and unevenness, the rivers are dying and decreasing day by day. What remains are now poisonous. The main reason for water pollution is various types of toxic fluid from mills and factories. They are causing unlimited damages to the river’s environment. BAPA said that all the chemicals, acid, alkalis, heavy metal, various pigments from the industrial sector are not only polluting the surface but also polluting the underground water. Shitalakshya and Buriganga River’s water is totally poisonous due to connections with five large drains that are containing ammonia, calcium chloride, sodium hydro-oxide and sulfuric acid from the 90 percent factories of Hazaribagh in Dhaka. Experts say, if this arbitrariness continues, the day is not far away when the people of Bangladesh will die due to lack of water.
It is a matter of pleasure that recently the government has taken a policy for river dredging and to regain the occupied lands of river from the grabber. Along with this, existing Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs) law should be strengthened for the industry so that the rivers of our country can alive again.
Md. Monjurur Rahman
Begum Rokeya University,
Rangpur
