The question is, why are the Cumilla EPZ factories discharging untreated waste into nearby canals despite there being a Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) since 2014?
Since there appear to be no practical means of stopping erosion (despite existing embankments and protective efforts), the solution lies in developing socioeconomic measures to mitigate the impacts of erosion events, rather than preventing erosion itself.
For here, in this development wasteland, rivers don’t live; they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free – or as a side character in their own story, as told through poetry and music. They exist in inherited nostalgia.