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| Assam wetland turns into dumpyard |
| Yet the Guwahati Corporation continues to dump and burn garbage on the wetland, as the government looks the other way.
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| INDIA
, 8-January-2008
2:22:21 AM |
| Pollution control has given the Assam government an ultimatum and issued a warning for outbreak of epidemic, over the contamination of one of India's endangered wetlands, Deepor Beel.
Yet the Guwahati Corporation continues to dump and burn garbage on the wetland, as the government looks the other way.
The core area of the Ramsar wetland Deepor Beel has now become a picnic spot for local residents and fishermen fishing here are destroying aquatic life.
Many migratory birds come to this place every year but this year not even a single one has come yet. Instead scavengers have replaced them.
Today the world dumps 70 million tonnes of global warming pollution and this is just a little part of that but why it's significant and disastrous is because across this ridge is the Ramsar wetland called Deepor Beel, which is an internationally protected wetland.
But while there is a lot of focus on Deepor Beel, with efforts from various agencies, the government there has shown little or no concern.
For the past two years, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation has been dumping the city's waste here, despite warnings from the pollution control board. This week they went a step further and now they are burning the garbage.
The pollution control board has warned them yet again and also said that there may be an epidemic anytime, since pollutants in the wetland are seeping into the groundwater.
''Due to the dumping activity, the water of the entire Deepor Beel has been contaminated. The migratory numbers are less and fish have been affected as well,'' said J Sharma, Assistant Analyst, Pollution Control Board.
''The whole city's waste, plastic waste, even bio medical waste is dumped here and that's very dangerous. It's infectious and that's a major problem. When you burn plastic then the gases are very harmful to humans''
Government agencies refused to speak to us on the situation.
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