From Pristine To Polluted

Some days back, a Twitterati posted, "How beautiful flowers! How delightful it could be if the stream was also clean? The stream below the blooming plants is a fecal sludge emanating horrible stench!" This X (formerly Twitter) post was made along with a photo taken from a bridge over the Dhobikhola, one of the major streams in the Kathmandu Valley. As the post said, the Dhobikhola is so reeking that anyone passing by the riverside is forced to scrunch their nose in sheer disgust. The river is no longer moving but an open sewage- the bodily waste emptied on it from every settlement from both sides.