River Pollution

Water is one of the key elements for human survival, development progressions and success. However, the current trends of destruction of fresh water sources have been turned into be the most limiting factor for achieving sustainable development at every aspects. The water use conflicts among different players for life on earth i.e. agriculture, industry, urbanization and pollution of river water due to industrialization and other anthropogenic causes are very high in all over the world and severe in developing country. Rivers have always provided fresh water for humans and have been the mean of production of food, transportation, recreation and sites for settlement for thousands of years.
The history of river pollution goes back to the very beginning of the history of human civilization as this are the places where civilization had its start and have been evolving since then. However, river pollution did not receive much attention until a threshold level was reached with adverse consequences on the ecosystems and organisms. River pollution has become a global concern, but even so, most developing nations are still producing huge pollution piles to the river system and the trends are expected to increase in the days to come ahead. One of the most critical problems of developing countries like Bangladesh is improper management of vast amount of wastes generated by various anthropogenic activities. The unsafe disposal of these wastes into the ambient environment is contributing to the increasing level of pollution in those area. Water bodies especially freshwater reservoirs are the most affected components of the ecosystem due to this pollution loads. This has often rendered these natural

To know the present status of pollution at Buriganga river,
2. To prepare a spatial and temporal map of common heavy metal pollution in the water of Buriganga river, and
3. To document the socioeconomic causes and consequences of Buriganga river pollution on water