IUCN River Ashish sahu
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The Mekong River is the world's twelfth longest river and suffers from significant plastic pollution, contributing to oceanic plastic waste. In China, cities like Beijing and Tianjin face extreme water pollution, with vast percentages of their water sources being dysfunctional. Additionally, the Ganges River, crucial to India's culture and providing for over half a billion people, is heavily polluted by sewage and plastic waste, threatening its ecological and spiritual significance.
IUCN River Ashish sahu
- 1. The Mekong, the world's 12th longest river and after the Amazon, the richest area of biodiversity in the world . 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the oceans every year.
- 2. "Rivers carry trash over long distances and connect nearly all land surfaces with the oceans, making them a major battleground in the fight against sea pollution"~ Christian Schmidt, hydrogeologist at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany
- 3. Water pollution levels in China's major cities are extremely high. In Beijing, 39.9% of water is polluted to the point that it is essentially functionless. In Tianjin, northern China’s principal port city and home to 15 million people, just 4.9% of water is usable as a drinking water source. The Hai River connects two of China's most populous metropolitan areas, Tianjin and Beijing, before flowing into one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the Bohai Sea. It comes in fourth in the Top Polluters' list.
- 4. • The Meghna-Brahmaputra- Ganges is central to India's spiritual life and provides water to more than half a billion people. Sewage, agricultural and industrial waste have made it one of the world's most polluted rivers. • The river Ganges is worshipped as "Ganga Mata", the divine mother who has sustained life and nurtured civilization for thousands of years. Sewage, industrial wastewater and the dumping of 1.2 billion pounds of plastic each year is taking its toll on the sacred river.
- 5. Around 20 million people live in the Mekong Delta, many are dependent on fishing and agriculture for survival. The river flows through six countries, including Vietnam and Laos, and is tenth on the list of river systems that carry most of the 8 million tons of plastic that are dumped into the seas each year.