About 12 million people lives in Dhaka and a large number of them depends on the Buriganga's water for drinking, fishing and carrying merchandise. The almighty Buriganga was the life line of this magnificent city Dhaka the capitol of Bangladesh. But the once mighty Buriganga is now the most polluted river in Bangladesh. According to Ainun Nishat a leading environmental expert "Much of the Buriganga has now gone, having fallen to insatiable land grabbers and industries dumping untreated effluents into the river." The World Bank said that the Buriganga receives 1.5 million cubic metres of waste water every day.
Because of that the water of Buriganga river has turned into something like black gel even rowing across the river is ow difficult for it's bad smell. Chemicals such as cadmium, chromium, and other elements such as mercury carried by the industrial waste are also creeping into the ground water posing a serious threat to public health.
"The pollutants have eaten up all oxygen in the Buriganga and we call it biologically dead. It is like a septic tank." that what Khwaja Mainnahtulla, a world bank specialist on environment and water management said about Buriganga. He also said "if the pollution is not controlled, we will face a serious health crisis in a year or two or at best three years."
So it is very very important for us to raise awareness to save Buriganga as quickly as we can. we dont have much time so we should try our utmost to save Buriganga.........................
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