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Appropriate Steps Crucial to Keep River Water Pollution-Free: Rizwana
Energy & Power
|EP_22_19 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 19 March 16, 2025)
Adviser of the Ministry of Environment, Forest, Climate Change, and Water Resources, Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said that it is important to take appropriate steps to keep river water pollution-free and flow normally.
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“The value of rivers in agriculture-dependent Bangladesh is immense. Just as the river is being polluted due to the use of contaminated waste emitted from factories and pesticides, it is also losing its normal flow due to illegal sand mining and river governan
This story is from the EP_22_19 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 19 March 16, 2025) edition of Energy & Power.
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