When water bodies die a slow death, and irreversible, we wake up, heritage collapses
By D N Singh (Exclusive)
That is where our environment are heading at. First forest cover and now water bodies are on a rapid depletion mode and many of them are in a irreversible way. Never to be brought back again.
Three waterbodies showed no amount of dissolved oxygen, thus deeming them unfit for any kind of life.
The Pollution Control Board of Tamil Nadu said that three rivers in Chenai are going to a finishing stage. They are Adyar, Buckinggham and Cooum who cannot be romanticized on the past.
Similar examples can be traced elsewhere in the country where the water bodies are either dying under shrinkage or deforestation of the peripheries leading to siltation.
Even the Chilika Lagoon in Odisha is one of the brightest examples of such depletion.
The second largest brackish water lagoon in the world, after Lake Baikal in South Africa, Chilika is also a Ramsar Site, is today grasping for breath following its rapid decline in the estuarine character, an unique amalgamation of fresh and sea water.
Floras and faunas in large number have died and are the finish. A premature clinical treatment has aggravated the lake’s ailment after a 100 mtr opening has led to excessive ingress of sea water thus a making the estuarine water into a virtual lake of near seawater.
It is simply being romanticized on its past as a queen lake minus the very sensible eco-diversity.
Similarly, the three dyeing rivers in Chenai symbolize the general depletion of water bodies around the country. The sand bar blocking its exit into the sea, near Flagstaff House was dredged and widening the exit route. Which had a terrible side effect.
What astounding similarity. Chilika’s border with the sea sand dune was clinically prematurely dredged without any prior model study which was being done by National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. Result is for all to sea .
