river pollution
Rampal fouling 2 Sundarbans rivers
The Rampal power plant began operation in late 2022 without an effluent treatment plant and has since been discharging untreated waste into the Pasur and Maidara rivers next to the Sundarbans.
Column by Mahfuz Anam / Of rivers and people
The present leadership must prioritise the development of these two assets of Bangladesh for a sustainable and prosperous future.
Star Interview / ‘Won’t tolerate river pollution’
Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has issued a stern warning against the pollution of rivers by businesses.
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
Rampal fouling 2 Sundarbans rivers
The Rampal power plant began operation in late 2022 without an effluent treatment plant and has since been discharging untreated waste into the Pasur and Maidara rivers next to the Sundarbans.
Of rivers and people
The present leadership must prioritise the development of these two assets of Bangladesh for a sustainable and prosperous future.
‘Won’t tolerate river pollution’
Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has issued a stern warning against the pollution of rivers by businesses.
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.