essay on save river 250 words
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India is a civilization which flourished on banks of great rivers like holy Ganga, Sindhu, Krishna, Kaveri. We worshiped these rivers for generations which are now on verge of depleting. All major rivers don’t run for all year round, they bring flood in monsoon and drought in summer. These perennial rivers which ran and helped the human, animals, and creatures around it for generations now hardly reach to the ocean in summer. These are not just the rivers these are lifelines of India. We destroyed the legacy of generations in few decades and if we don’t wake up now and save the rivers, the days will not far where people will kill each other for the water.
The whole planet has only 3% of drinkable water, out of which 2/3 is frozen on polar ice caps, that leaves only 1% of drinkable water for the whole world. In India, we already consume 75% less water and if we don’t do anything to save rivers then by 2030 it will reduce to 50%. We need to act now. These rivers give us life and in return, we killed them. Here are few ways we can save the rivers in India.
Rivers in rural are drying up and urban rivers becoming the absolute dumping grounds. River pollution is a very big problem in cities and industrial areas. Industries dump toxic industrial waste into rivers, which kill aquatic ecosystem and affects people who are directly dependant on those rivers. In cities, all rivers turned into a sewage canal. In Mumbai’s there is a river called as “Mithee” means “Sweet” but there nothing sweet about it. It has become a big gutter, one cannot even bear the odor while crossing it from overbridge. Government policies are already there but the administration is failed to enforce them and that is the story of almost all cities and towns in India. We need to bring in better waste management policies mainly in urban areas. We need to come up with innovative ideas to save rivers from pollution.