We Need To Save Our Rivers, Right Now

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    • Publish Date: Sep 6 2017 12:33PM
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    • Updated Date: Sep 6 2017 1:29PM
We Need To Save Our Rivers, Right Now

Thousands of people from all walks of life took to the streets across India recently to take a pledge to revive the country’s depleting rivers. Spiritual guru Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev conceived the campaign Rally for Rivers to draw attention to the rampant problem. But why is it essential to save rivers ? 


The dying rivers
 
Pollution & Sewage dumping: According to environmentalists, the dumping of millions of tonnes of sewage is killing India’s rivers and threatening the lives of thousands of poor people. Environmentalists say while India has over 300 sewage treatment plants, most are underutilised and poorly positioned. Similarly, industrial wastes, carcasses of cattle and other animals, coupled with flowers and other waste related to religious rituals and plastic bags pollute rivers and block the course.

Climate change: Climate change is also another threat to water supplies. With Himalayan glaciers, the source of many of India’s rivers rapidly receding, many rivers are dying. Erratic rainfall is yet another cause of concern.
 
 

Why are dying rivers a cause of worry?
  • According to estimates, 65% of our water needs are met by rivers
  • Two out of three major Indian cities deal with water shortage. Many urban residents pay 10 times the normal amount for a can of water
  • We consume water not just to drink or for domestic purposes. 80% of water is used to grow our food. Each person’s average water requirement is 1.1 million litres a year
  • Flood, drought and rivers turning seasonal are increasingly leading to crop failure across the country
  • Climate change is expected to cause deadly floods and drought within the next 25-50 years

Need of the hour
 
Sewage treatment
India faces major challenges related to river pollution due to multiple sources, especially industrial and untreated sewage in cities. We need to develop proper and effective treatment for domestic sewage system which is flowing into rivers in huge quantities.
Kaustav Chatterjee, founder, Green Vigil Foundation, Nagpur
 
Improve solid waste management
It has been observed that most of the solid waste ends up in rivers and water bodies. So, there is an urgent need to improve our solid waste management.  
Veena Srinivasan, hydrologist,  Bengaluru
 
Create awareness
No government, no scheme, no funding can be successful, unless people take responsibility for the same and transform into active participants. Apart from ensuring that only treated water should be allowed in the river and entry of solid waste is checked by setting treatment plants, equal efforts are required to create awareness among citizens to refrain from polluting them further.
R Prajapati, environment activist, Surat

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Comments

Aikya Oruganti Epistemo Global - Vikas Leadership School

yes it is our duty

Aikya Oruganti Epistemo Global - Vikas Leadership School

hats off to ISHA

Dharshan Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Saving and keeping rivers clean, is the duty of the Indian citizens. However most of us don''t take care about these important rivers, India is turning into a big desert. Even world''s longest rivers such as Ganga, Yamuna are in danger. We should keep a full stop to this and it is our duty to save our rivers.

Hemalatha.G Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation Higher Secondary Scho

This is really threatening. It is because of us. Many were warning us to be careful. But we never minded. For short term gain we will suffer for a long term. The one who pollutes rivers must be severely punished. Sewage treatment should be made compulsory. No other go we have to do something.

Dilsher Singh Chatha Bhavan Vidyalaya Panchkula

It''s bad,very bad on the side of the selfish man . We just think about ourselves and in the process harm ourselves only as well as others . We need to stop it now or its a never

R.Lokeshwaran Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Yeah that''s a great idea. If we save now we will Gain in the future . And also linking the rivers will decrease the water scarcity and flooding in the city areas

Aarushi Kakkar NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

It is definitely high time we save water

E.Harish grand Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Rivers are one of the major resources for our living.It is our duty to safeguard.If we continue like this,I''m damn sure that one day the earth is gonna destroy.We have to do something quickly.

Shweta Ullala National Academy For Learning

This is very true!

Shweta Ullala National Academy For Learning

We must try our best to save rivers else our world will dry up and we will have no place to live

AMAN.KUMAR Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

our India is great but there are some people who don''t understand the greatness of our India they just waste everything and they through garbage hear and their. if you see every where if there are people lives then it will be a lot of garbage, and they harm our beautiful India and our mother earth.

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