GalleryRivers Day in pictures: black water and plastic on Dhaka and Chattogram rivers
On World Rivers Day, photographs of three rivers in Dhaka and Chattogram show factory effluent, vessel oil, floating plastic and two-coloured water.
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EnvironmentWater minister calls for joint effort to save rivers as five win Mark Angelo award
At a World Rivers Day event at Pani Bhaban, water resources minister Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee said government, public, researchers and environmentalists must work together; five were honoured for protecting rivers.
EnvironmentRangpur campaigners call for every transboundary river to be listed and recognised
At a World Rivers Day discussion and human chain at Begum Rokeya University, teachers, students and river activists demanded that all of Bangladesh's transboundary rivers be identified and recognised.
EnvironmentPolluted, encroached rivers raise health risks as heavy metals turn up in fish
Factory waste, vessel oil and encroachment are wrecking Bangladesh's rivers; a study found heavy metals above WHO limits in Meghna fish, and families hit by erosion report more depression.