Living Waters: Emphasising the need to protect life's breath on this planet
A virus has caused us to scramble for oxygen but our chokehold on the environment is slowly strangling the very waters that breathe life into us. The virus is a timely reminder: We are merely consumers, not producers of life's breath on this planet
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Garbage floats in the Ganga river along the ghats of Varanasi, India
A toxic soup of marine debris that gets swept into sewers, storm drains and waterways and eventually out to sea via rivers, has turned our oceans into floating garbage patches. Eight of the 10 ten rivers that carry 90 percent of the plastic that ends up in the ocean are found to be in Asia. What these rivers had in common: A vast population living along the banks, with a lack of incentive and infrastructure to recycle plastic waste. The Indus and the Ganga, carry the second and sixth highest amounts of plastic debris to the ocean.
