মাহফুজা আক্তার
সহকারী অধ্যাপক
১০ এপ্রিল, ২০২১ ০৮:৫১ অপরাহ্ণ
unit 12 ,lesson 1 water water water everywhere||HSC ||Text Analysis||Mafuza
ধরন: সাধারণ শিক্ষা
শ্রেণি: একাদশ
বিষয়: English for Today
One of the sources of water in our country is the rivers. Rivers are everywhere in our life, literature,
economy and culture. But are the rivers in good shape? Unfortunately, they are not. A few are already
dead and several are going through the pangs of death. The river Buriganga is an example of a dying
river. A report published in the Daily Sun describes what has happened to the river Buriganga and
why. Its water is polluted and a perpetual stench fills the around it. But that is not what it was like
before. The report says that the river had a glorious past. Once it was a tributary of the mighty
Ganges and flowed into the Bay of Bengal through the river Dhaleshwari. Gradually, it lost its link
with the Ganges and got the name Buriganga. The Mughals marveled at the tide level of Buriganga
and founded their capital Jahangirnagar on its bank in 1610. The river supplied drinking water and
supported trade and commerce. Jahangirnagar was renamed Dhaka which grew into a heavily
populated city with a chronic shortage of space. The city paid the bounty of the river by sucking life
out of it! According to the newspaper report, Buriganga is dying because of pollution. Huge
quantities of toxic chemicals and wastes from mills and factories, hospitals, and clinics and
households and other establishments are dumped into the river every day. The city of Dhaka
discharges about 4500 tons of solid waste every day and most of it is directly released into the
Buriganga. According to the Department of the Environment (DoE), 20,000 tons of tannery waste
including some highly toxic materials, are released into river every day. The expert identified nine
industrial areas in and around the capital city as primary sources of river pollution: Tongi, Tejgaon,
Hazaribagh, Tarabo, Narayangang, Savar, Gazipur, Dhaka Export Processing Zone, and Ghorashal.“Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,e,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”Samuel Taylor Coleridge(
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
)
Coleridge, one of the founders of the British Romantic Literature,had resided at San Anton Palace just less than two centuries ago. His post in Malta at the time was of Secretary to the rst British CivilChief Commissioner of Malta
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. He had summed up his experienceof his stay in Malta as such: “I live when in the country, which I am
