Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.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 air 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 marvelled at the tide level of the Buriganga and founded their capital Jahangirnagar on its banks 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 back the bounty of the river by sucking life out of it. According to newspaper report, the 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 everyday. The city of Dhaka discharges
about 4500 tons of solid waste everyday 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 the river everyday. Experts identified nine industrial areas in and around the capital city as the primary
sources of river pollution: Tongi, Tejgaon, Hazaribagh, Tarabo, Narayanganj, Savar, Gazipur, Dhaka Export
Processing Zone and Ghorashal.
The river would need a monster's stomach to digest all the wastes mentioned abovE- There is a limit up to which it can put
up with its cruel and thoughtless treatment. We the humans have successfully killed one of our rivers. There are other rivers
in the country, that are being subjected to similar thoughtless treatment. Unless we take care of our rivers, there may come a
time when we will cry 'water', water' and find it nowherE-.

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Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.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 air 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 marvelled at the tide level of the Buriganga and founded their capital Jahangirnagar on its banks 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 back the bounty of the river by sucking life out of it. According to newspaper report, the 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 everyday. The city of Dhaka discharges 
about 4500 tons of solid waste everyday 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 the river everyday. Experts identified nine industrial areas in and around the capital city as the primary 
sources of river pollution: Tongi, Tejgaon, Hazaribagh, Tarabo, Narayanganj, Savar, Gazipur, Dhaka Export 
Processing Zone and Ghorashal.
The river would need a monster's stomach to digest all the wastes mentioned abovE- There is a limit up to which it can put 
up with its cruel and thoughtless treatment. We the humans have successfully killed one of our rivers. There are other rivers
in the country, that are being subjected to similar thoughtless treatment. Unless we take care of our rivers, there may come a 
time when we will cry 'water', water' and find it nowherE-.

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