By Restoring India’s Kham River, a City Revives Its Cultural Legacy https://www.wri.org/insights/kham-river-restoration
The Kham River Restoration Initiative demonstrates how a social-ecological approach to waterway management can transform cities and improve lives... They mapped 249 waste entry points with drones and installed traps. Rerouted sewage to treatment plants and built new ones. Set up a facility for textile waste from factories. Cleaned the river and discovered springs that were buried under debris. Fixed waste collection across the city, removed 170 dump sites. The municipal commissioner joined weekend cleanups himself. Citizens showed up every Saturday. The key was stopping waste from entering the river in the first place, not just cleaning it.
It has dramatically reduced environmental degradation and flood risk along the Kham River. And as the first river in India not connected to the glacier-fed perennial Ganges River to have an Urban River Management Plan, the Kham is setting a precedent for smaller-scale and seasonal rivers to create formal management frameworks. These plans also expand cleanup work to other bodies of water at the regional basin-level, beyond municipal bounds.
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