River Pollution

River Pollution

Bangladesh High Court. Photo: BSS

Shitalakshya pollution: HC orders power, gas disconnection for 20 factories without ETPs

Compliance report on action due by 30 April.

File photo of Turag River. Photo: Syed Zakir Hussain

Heavy metal pollution in Bangladesh rivers reaches critical levels

Lauti, a local canal that flows down to Khiru River, has pitch-black water with an oozing, horrid odour from the liquid waste of local factories. Photo: Mehedi Hasan.

How Bhaluka factories are damaging rivers - from Khiru to Shitalakshya

Photo: Courtesy

Coordinated efforts needed for de-encroachment, de-pollution of rivers: Environment minister

Industrial effluent of a textile dyeing factory is discharged into the Shitalakshya River in Narayanganj’s Kanchpur. Factories on both sides are continuously polluting the river by discharging untreated chemicals killing the river. Photo: Rajib Dhar

Shitalakshya: Watching a river die

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan. Sketch: TBS

Rivers must be saved from encroachers, polluters

representational Image. Tin-shed houses have been built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River. Photo: Md Minhaz Uddin/TBS

Govt takes up masterplan to prevent river pollution in and around Dhaka: LGRD Minister

FILE PHOTO: A sign protesting against government management of water allocation is seen on a bridge over the drying-up Darling River at Menindee in western New South Wales, Australia April 25, 2019. Picture taken April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Tom Westbrook/File Photo

Low dissolved oxygen levels behind mass fish death in Australian river

Mukteshwari River. Photo: Collected

Officials drag feet as Mukteshwari River inches towards death

Photo: Collected

5 tanneries shut down in Savar for polluting river

Illustration: TBS

'We will have the rivers cleaned by March 2023': NRCC Chairman

Illustration: TBS

'This time the Committee did not merely recommend, we now have an inter-ministerial agreement to save Dhaleshwari river'

Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed

Jail, fine urged for Dhaka North mayor, Wasa MD over river pollution