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India fights hard to save polluted rivers
Source: Daily Times, New Delhi, Date: , 2017
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Daily Times, New Delhi, Oct 4, 2017:- Rivers of India are often called its lifeline. They are
revered and worshipped by people who got their identities in the ancient times
by settling near rivers. Till today, many states, now metropolises, are
situated on riverbanks, thriving from the resources that it provides them.
Water bodies have sustained the country since olden times and continue doing so
till date. However, in the past two decades, the burden of human and river
ecosystem interaction have changed the natural processes of various rivers.
Unsustainable and indiscriminate use have dried rivers and irreparably damaged
their ecosystem. While environmentalists have been pointing to the alarming
situation since a long time with research and activism both, successive
governments failed to take tough, even extreme measures that were needed to
both create awareness and prevent their deterioration.
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