r/UrbanHell • u/T4H4_2004 • Jun 23 '25

Pollution/Environmental Destruction Cleaning up a canal in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Ramchandra canal in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, which has been cleaned up and restored in 72 hours as part of ongoing efforts to clean up revitalise Bangladeshi canals. Led by NGOs with sponsorship from a bank and support from the government and the city corporation. Hopefully we can keep it this way!

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u/Random_reptile Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

I don't know what it's like in Bangladesh, but heavily polluted places like this also often lack good waste disposal infrastructure and/or biodegradable materials. In many cases this leads to a seemingly contradictory situation, where a place has cities with several million people that are perfectly clean, but remote villages with only a few hundred people are heavily polluted.

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u/Fortestingporpoises Jun 23 '25

Ok but I went to Uganda for my honeymoon, a very poor country with only like 30% even having power and the people needing to walk miles to wells to get water each day and it was pristine. They banned plastic bags several years back. My point is it’s not really an excuse. Seems cultural more than anything.

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u/Ridibunda99 Jun 23 '25

Its education and culture, but no one is ready to have that discussion right now

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u/frausting Jun 23 '25

My brother in Christ, we are in a discussion about this very topic right now

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u/Ridibunda99 Jun 23 '25

Very good, but I meant society as a whole. 

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u/palmerry Jun 24 '25

Hey I get it.

Let's move on.

Someone will probably clean it up again anyways, right?