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A requiem for the Bagmati
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In Kathmandu and the valley’s seven other municipalities, the Bagmati is joined by its major tributaries—Bishnumati, Hanumante, Dhobikhola and Tukucha. Sewage from squatter settlements and much of the valley’s 600 tonnes of unsegregated solid waste is dumped into the rivers’ waters, turning these rivers into little more than sewage canals
Photographs by: Aditya Batra
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Tags: A requiem for the Bagmati, Bagmati, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Kathmandu, Nepal, River Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), South Asia, Squatter Settlement, Urban Land Use, Urban Sprawl, Waste Disposal, Water Pollution
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