‘Holy river’ carries industrial waste & sewage from Nepal to India

Mongabay
Jan 21, 2026, 10:01 am126 ptsTrending
BIRGUNJ, Nepal — When 38-year-old Pradeep Kumar Bishwokarma was growing up in Ramgadhawa, a neighborhood in southern Nepal’s industrial town of Birgunj, he would jump into the Sirsiya River to beat the summer heat as his mother washed clothes and residents drew drinking water from it. Today, Bishwokarma and…

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