How we treat our Rivers

Just few days ago I visited one of the temple situated in Maharashtra. The temple is ancient and built with stone. It is situated on the bank of river “Krishna”. The feelings inside the temple were very pleasant and inspirational but when I saw the condition of the river, I was surprised to saw the waste material deposition in the river.

This is most dangerous problem we Indian have, we treat the water bodies as a dumping ground for all waste we have. We never think about the future effects of water pollution before throwing the waste material inside the rivers and canals. The river contains plastic waste, vegetable waste, industrial chemicals etc. Now a day’s Indian government takes initiative to clean the water bodies such as rivers but I think the efforts may goes waste because it is not the duty of government officers to clean the rivers but the main responsibility is on us. We are the polluters of Nature so unless and until we worship the Nature from our heart, Nature will never become clean.