River Pollution

File photo of Turag River. Photo: Syed Zakir Hussain
Environment

Heavy metal pollution in Bangladesh rivers reaches critical levels

Research, which examined pollution trends in 10 heavy metals from 2001 to 2020, paints a dire picture of the nation's waterways

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.
Panorama

How Bhaluka factories are damaging rivers - from Khiru to Shitalakshya

Photo: Courtesy
Environment

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
Environment

Shitalakshya: Watching a river die

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan. Sketch: TBS
Analysis

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
Bangladesh

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
World+Biz

Low dissolved oxygen levels behind mass fish death in Australian river

Mukteshwari River. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Officials drag feet as Mukteshwari River inches towards death

Photo: Collected
Environment

5 tanneries shut down in Savar for polluting river

Illustration: TBS
Panorama

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

Illustration: TBS
Panorama

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

Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
Environment

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

Contaminated water from the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate pollutes the River Kaliganga after the River Dhaleshwari and the River Buriganga. Photo: Rajib Dhar
Environment

Rivers surrounding Dhaka get polluted at 693 points: Study