Buriganga could be revived within a year: Experts

The Buriganga River could be revived within a year by just putting an end to the spilling of industrial and household pollution into the river, according to water experts. Prof Dr M Feroze Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor of Stamford University, told a meet-the-press programme at the Jatiya Press Club on Saturday. The Department of Public Health Engineering, the United Nations Information Centre, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Bank, Bangladesh WASH Alliance, Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and the NGO Forum for Public Health jointly organised the programme marking the World Water Day. “Why the rivers surrounding Dhaka city cannot be revived? It’s very much possible to restore the old nature of the rivers — Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Sitalakhya,” he said, according to a news agency.