Mumbai: ahead of the Independence Day, environmentalists launched a targeted marketing campaign in search of freedom from sewer for Mumbai's six hundred-hectare Powai Lake which has changed into a reservoir of grime with the draining of 18 million litres-a-day of untreated sewer.

With the name, "i'm Powai Lake, I need freedom from your sewer", the NatConnect foundation's campaign mentioned that the lake changed into as soon as a jewel of mumbai as a prime appeal.

The campaign asks BrihanMumbai Municipal agency (BMC) to consist of 'smooth Powai Lake' venture as a part of its Swachh Bharat marketing campaign.

hundreds of rubbish inclusive of plastic wrappers, liquor bottles, and even particles are being dumped at the lake, said activist pamela Cheema, who's also the chairperson of BMC-mandated superior Locality management (ALM) committee.

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Ministers, Municipal officers had been promising movement to clean up and unfastened the lake from sewer and facilitate the flourishing of biodiversity, but like maximum professional promises, those words too proved to be shallow, Cheema regretted.

Stressing that mumbai residents must recognize that the sprawling wetlands including Powai Lake are vital for the metropolis's survival, NatConnect director B N Kumar talked about that wetlands play a huge function in soaking up the carbon sink, hosting biodiversity, recharging the floor water table.

Kumar favored the fact that the indian government is a signatory to the worldwide Ramsar conference on conservation wetlands.

these days, Union environment minister Bhupendra Yadav posted on social media that India's resolution on 'promoting Sustainable life for the smart use of Wetlands' has been adopted at Ramsar CoP15 in zimbabwe on July 30, 2025.

The maiden decision of india obtained overwhelming assist from Contracting parties and worldwide employer companions. 172 nations and six international organization companions have thus joined hands in adopting the ethos of venture existence in the conservation in their Wetlands, Yadav stated.

"so far, so proper," Kumar stated and argued that Powai Lake represents the actual picture of degenerated wetlands in India.

stating the hyacinth mess this is adverse the lake, some other ALM member Meenal Bhat stated with the currents and monsoon winds, the hyacinth may seem like much less in the middle of the waterbody. "however, please check the edges. Hyacinth is piled up there, and now it has began to spread lower back into the lake," she said.

Hyacinth ought to be cleaned so that the aqua existence can breathe and get some sunshine that they want for his or her survival, Bhat stated.

The marketing campaign recalled that in a parliament query hour, the then minister Of state (unbiased fee) For surroundings, woodland And weather alternate Anil madhav Dave said on november eleven, 2016 that "Powai lake in mumbai is blanketed underneath the NPCA/NLCP programme and a venture of 'recuperation and Conservation of Powai Lake' has already been carried out by using Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation (BMC) at a price of Rs. four.70 crore, underneath which conservation sports relating to bioremediation of lake, de-weeding, desludging, aeration gadget for lake, chain hyperlink fencing, monitoring, and so on. were taken up.

a standing Committee on Water resources document dated june 26, 2016, Powai Lake was blanketed within the NPCA and turned into accepted at a cost of Rs. 28.fifty seven crores with Rs. 18.675 crores launched via that date.

"We wonder as to what has happened to all that cash? And what had been the effects that have been done," asked local activist Anamika Sharma.

The BMC has currently started out the technique of floating tenders for the diversion of the raw sewer and putting in place treatment flowers at the lake, she stated and pressured the need to speed up the process

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