India, Bangladesh and three dying rivers: a multimedia report
Ill-thought hydropower projects, sand mining and indiscriminate dumping of waste have brought three transboundary rivers between India and Bangladesh to the brink of death
Tag: river pollution
Odisha and Chhattisgarh are treating Mahanadi like a commodity
An interview with water activist Ranjan Panda about the inter-state water dispute and how coal-fired power plants are the real trigger of the conflict over the water of the Mahanadi river
India has a long list of inter-state river water conflicts. The recent conflict between the Odisha and Chhattisgarh governments over the waters of the Mahanadi river is the latest addition…Read More
Ganga, Yamuna reduced to drains but no party cares
Electricity, roads and water have been the holy trinity of Indian poll promises for decades, but water comes such a distant third that it is not even an important issue as Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, gets ready to vote
“Yes, Ganga and Yamuna have turned into drains. But no candidate is talking about this, nor is any voter asking,” says Abhishek Srivastava…Read More
Ganga an unholy mess at Kanpur
Government initiatives to clean up the Ganga have failed to stop the dumping of toxic effluents and untreated sewage into the river at the industrial hub of Kanpur
Even a short visit to Kanpur, an industrial city in northern India, is enough to show that there is no respite yet for the Ganga from massive pollution despite the much-trumpeted…Read More
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