The new CPCB report on river pollution does not reveal the true picture

Who goes to find a river when our current rivers are dying?' (Amit clarified that his movie does not doubt people's religion. But spending taxpayers' cash on a project like this defies good judgment). I agreed. THE CPCB REPORT Our rivers are loss of life. So are the ecosystems that feed them. A current document released by using the Central Pollution Control Board all over again well-knownshows the sorry state of affairs: MORE POLLUTED STRETCHES: The number of polluted stretches in India's rivers has increased to 351 from 302 two years in the past, and the quantity of seriously polluted stretches — in which water exceptional signs are the poorest — has gone as much as forty five from 34 in 28 states and 6 Union Territories. Based at the recommendations of the National Green Tribunal, the CPCB remaining month appraised the states of the extent of pollutants of their rivers. This is alarming but this isn't the real nation of our rivers, say river experts. The fact is a great deal worse, when different factors (disappearing flows, increasing variety of structures and diversions, sand mining, disappearing biodiversity, deleterious projects underway and deliberate etc) extra than mere water high-quality (as is the constrained mandate of CPCB) are taken into consideration. Except a few uphill and select stretches of tributaries of a few foremost rivers, generally all rivers are in a terrible shape. THE TOP OFFENDERS: While the Rs 20,000 crore smooth-up of the Ganga may be the maximum seen of the country's efforts to address pollution, the CPCB says several of the river's stretches — in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh — are a long way less polluted than many rivers in Maharashtra, Assam, and Gujarat. These 3 states account for 117 of the 351 polluted river stretches. 'This isn't any wonder because those are excessive and increasingly more industrialised and urbanised states, however the growth in Assam is fascinating. Perhaps it is in Assam that the observations points have seen a more increase,' says former forester-grew to become-river crusader Manoj Misra. LACK OF EFFECTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT: A Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report of 2015, mentioned inside the Centre for Science and Environment's State of India's Environment 2018 document, delivered out the fact that 61,948 million litres of city sewage is generated on a day by day foundation in India. But the towns have an hooked up sewage treatment capability of simplest 38% of this. In fact, greater than this quantity is going untreated into the rivers or water bodies as the treatment capacity of predominant sewage remedy flowers (STPs) within the us of a is around 66% of the set up capability as consistent with CPCB findings of 2013. As a result, greater than 38,000 million litres of wastewater goes into the major rivers, water bodies or even percolates into the floor every day. Over and above this there's commercial effluent. The information at the raw sewage from rural areas are not to be had. The countrywide obsession with 'cleaning' of rivers will land us handiest at its water first-rate evaluation. Unfortunately, other key threats to rivers as an ecological entity are unnoticed. 'Thus the magic phrase have to be rejuvenation and not simply 'cleansing'. This is due to the fact a clean river is an automated corollary of a rejuvenated river. But the latter is likewise far greater sustainable in its outcome,' adds Misra. @kumkumdasgupta Dailyhunt https://www.avitop.com/cs/members/junirooentaroo.aspx

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