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Buriganga Riverkeeper strives to protect the river Buriganga and the ecosystem by ensuring the flow of safe water through the engagement of informed and empowered communities in upholding enforcement of environmental laws for the effective sustenance of livelihoods and the health of citizenry.
Our Threats
Household waste
The Buriganga has become the primary dumping ground for nearly 1,000,000 city residents living on or near the riverbank. Insufficient municipal waste management facilities exacerbate this maltreatment of the Buriganga, as people throw refuse into the river indiscriminately in the absence of ...
Industrial discharge
Despite an official ban on the production and use of polythene bags in Dhaka, some 250 factories are still illegally making and supplying these bags to approximately 6,000,000 city dwellers every day. On average, 52% of the bags are used only once, and then discarded into drains and canals across ...
Lack of government enforcement
The total population of Dhaka City grew from 0.1 million in 1906 to 9.9 million in 2000. The average annual national growth rate of the urban population in Bangladesh has doubled over the past decade (2000‐2009), at 3.3% compared to 1.8% respectively. The high rate of urban population growth has ...
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How to protect Buriganga and Dhaleshwari from tannery pollution
Buriganga Riverkeeper and Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) jointly organized a round table meeting at the
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Incomplete Tannery Park of Savar in the Upcoming Eid: Buriganga and Dhaleshwari’s Ongoing Pollution
Buriganga Riverkeeper and Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) jointly organized a Press Conference on “Incomplete Tannery
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Human Chain to Save Buriganga River from Shyampur’s Dyeing Pollution
After Hazaribagh Tannery, the second largest deadly clustered pollution directly to the Buriganga has been
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Consultative Meeting to Protect Buriganga River and to Prevent its Pollution
Once Buriganga was considered as a lifeline of Dhaka city. Ironically, the mighty Buriganga River,
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Buriganga Riverkeeper Celebrated the Event, ‘Riverine Bangladesh and our Buriganga’ with School Children
With the Initiative of Buriganga Riverkeeper on 15th May, 2017 a river based awareness program
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Campaign to Raise Awareness for Saving Buriganga River through Song – Day 7
Final day of the event, ‘Save River through Song’, was held on May 10th, 2017.
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