HT Environment Conclave: Citizens can help check river pollution, say experts
3 years, 11 months ago

HT Environment Conclave: Citizens can help check river pollution, say experts

Hindustan Times  

A decentralised approach involving every citizen would be needed to save the country’s rivers from pollution, experts said at Hindustan Times Environment Conclave, while adding that the Public Trust Doctrine may be used against civic bodies and industries to stop them from polluting rivers and water bodies. Each and every state and district in the river’s catchment area and every citizen should be involved in this movement,” said Kalyan Rudra, a Kolkata-based expert on rivers and water bodies and chairman of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. We have to use the Public Trust Doctrine to apply stringent provisions against permitting municipal bodies or industries from polluting rivers,” said Arunabha Ghosh, CEO of Council on Energy, Environment and Water. Ghosh also said that climate change was compounding the problem of river pollution because rising temperature was impacting the melting of glaciers in the Himalayas and the flow of water in many perennial rivers was likely to get reduced.

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