Pumping water out
I'm very concerned. I live at the end of Gulshan Avenue, very near to a beautiful, neat little park near to a lake in Gulshan-2. Many, many people use this park to jog, walk around the park, do fitness-exercises or simply chat sitting on the benches around the lake. The water is very clean and there are many fish. The park is well kept (and guarded) by the Gulshan Society (ph: 9881375) and there are even nice plantations at the entrance.
Going around the lake yesterday, I saw pumps extracting the water from the lake. Thinking this would only be a temporary measure, I thought the pumping would be over in a day. To my great astonishment, the pumps are still working today and the level of the water has considerably lowered.
Could you tell me what's going on? Looking at the pace at which buildings arise in the neighbourhood, I fear the worst. This park is really one of the only 'green lungs' of this city, already so polluted that one has to go far out of Dhaka to catch some fresh air.
Some days one has to keep all the windows closed in order to stay alive.
Please don't tell me they're pumping the water out of the lake, giving the land away to speculation for new buildings that will stay again unoccupied most of the time ... and killing this city more and more with concrete.
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