“Burigonga” a river of Bangladesh has become Death well/hollow

Burigonga River was the most beautiful & recreational place for the city dwellers of Dhaka about 40 years back. But now it has become a death hollow because of it’s intensity of toxicity. There is no living fish or even no micro-organisms in her water. The color of water has been dark black for the continuous disposal of industry garbage & color, tannery waste, hospital waste, human filth, launch oil etc.  are continuing to pollute Burigonga’s water.

The main causes are the unpurified or untreated waste from Pagla water treatment plant. It’s purification capacity is 1 lack 20 thousands cm3 water but it purifies only 50 thousands cm3 of waste water so others are directly dumped into burigonga. The greatest threat for this river is the waste of tannery industries in Hajaribug. The whole waste of about 250 industries of 22 thousands cm3 and 10 metric ton waste directly go into the river.

 One research showed that there are 62 types of toxic chemical available in burigonga’s water. Amoxicillin, penicillin, ciprofloxacin, azithromycin etc high captive antibiotics are mixed with in water. It’s come from hospital wastes like tablet capsules’ cover, saline, bandages, etc. on the other hand those toxic chemical can damage health of those people who use it directly. Even more hospitals clothing’s are washed with this water. Some people staying beside the river bank use it for bathing, washing purposes. This can be imagined easily how threatening the fact is!!

Almost 50,000 people work on or cross this river for different purposes daily, but recently it’s been very difficult to cross this river without using musk or stay a minute beside the river. Her bad smell causes numerous diseases for human. People can’t go there to any recreational purposes like boating, fishing, walking etc. The toxic air of this river pollute the nearer other public places.

The supreme court of Bangladesh announced that all types of waste from industries, tanneries, households should never throw in the river directly without necessary treatment and he who will should be punished. But those declarations not came true yet. It’s been just a announcement. 

The specialists think that there is no way to make the river pollutants free but stop throwing chemicals in this river. But HOT (Heightened Ozonation Treatment) is an efficient way to purify water and soil invented by Andy Hong. He estimated that it is possible to purify of Burigongha’s water. This, work with o3 gas, react in soil and that’s emit bubble with chemical. By this process we can remove soil chemicals & chemicals in water as well.

It’s possible to remove pollutants from water by only stopping waste disposal in water otherwise the purification process won’t be able to show good results. So now it is a crying need for the people of Bangladesh to become conscious to save Burigonga and give back its joint.

Since we have to save her for ourselves……………….