Save Karnaphuli!
Photo: Zobaer Hossain Sikder
Thanks to the crass commercialisation and continuous dumping of highly toxic liquid and solid wastes into the Karnaphuli river. It is suffocating the feline of our country's economy! Experts say that the riverside factories, human waste, oil spilling by boats and vessels are responsible for pollution. Once the Karnaphuli used to be the haven of fishes, but now most of the fish species have vanished! "Department of Environment (DoE) and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) have failed to save the river from pollution, as about 300 factories on the banks of the river are discharging wastes into the river," says Idris Ali, professor of Chittagong College, who has been working on the pollution of the Karnaphuli river for two decades. Is anyone even a wee bit concerned about the fact? DoE director admitted the bad condition of the river. He said that according to the High Court order, they asked the factories to set up ETPs(Effluents Treatment Plants). Idris Ali has said that the renowned factories like KAFCO have no ETPs to treat wastes. Local people say that now even fishermen don't go fishing. I urge the authorities concerned to please save the heart of our economy, Karnaphuli river!
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