“The dog searched for survival in a river that could no longer offer clean water. Pollution steals from every living being.”
A River That Can't Give
While returning home from college, I looked towards the Hanumante Khola in Thimi.
The smell reached me before the river did.
Then I noticed a stray dog walking through the polluted water, searching for something to eat. That moment stayed with me. In this hot weather, the river should have been a place where the dog could at least stop to drink.
Instead, it had become a stream filled with waste.
It could no longer provide what nature intended it to. When we pollute rivers, we don't only harm water.
Rotting waste releases harmful gases into the air, bad odours spread through nearby communities, and every living creature pays the price.
Air, water, animals, and people are all connected. Watching that dog made me realize that clean air and a clean environment are not just for us.
They are for every life that depends on this planet, even those without a voice.
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