Indian border town adjacent to Bhutan is reeling from riverbed pollution

Mongabay
Apr 10, 2026, 5:15 am213 ptsTop
Jaigaon, a densely populated town on India’s border with Bhutan, is facing a crisis of poor waste disposal, reports contributor Chandrani Sinha for Mongabay India. Much of the town’s plastic, construction and medical waste gets dumped along the banks of the Torsa River. The river originates in the Chumbi…

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