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A river in UP had turned into a garbage dump — until 21-year-old Aakash Gupta decided to act. With no funding or equipment, he and a small group of youngsters spent weeks cleaning the polluted Manorama River, removing over 500 kg of waste in just 39 days. People mocked... show more

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At 5:30 AM, while most of us are asleep, Saji is already in the water. He is 61. He owns a small furniture shop. And he has taught over 10,000 people to swim for free. It started after 45 schoolchildren drowned in a boat tragedy near his home. Saji couldn't save them. But he decided he would save the next ones. So he went to the river. Every single day. For 16 years. He built floating lanes with tyre tubes. He created a "university" where beginners start in Pre-KG and graduates earn a PhD by crossing 750 metres of river. He taught a 70-year-old woman in a hijab. A boy with no hands. A double amputee. A child recovering from brain surgery. And here's the best part—every student has to volunteer for 6 days after they learn. Teach someone else. Keep the circle going. Over 10,000 people now know how to survive in water because of one man who refused to look away. Swipe left to meet this #ForceForGood hero. #forceforgoodheroes #adityabirlagroup In partnership with Aditya Birla Group

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Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺

59,624 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Before & After… If anyone doubts the power of community action over the Environment Agency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself. With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet. These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference. A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London. The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

Before & After… If anyone doubts the power of community action over the Environment Agency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself. With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet. These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference. A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London. The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians will be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

Paul Powlesland

450,649 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

What do you get when an area holding millions of pounds of trash gets flooded? An environmental disaster. That’s exactly what has happened at Thousand Acres Dog Park, now the site of a long-standing homeless encampment. For years, people have been allowed to live in this floodplain. But more critically, they’ve been allowed to haul in and stockpile millions of pounds of trash—much of it having nothing to do with survival or camping. When the river floods, all of it moves: plastics, human waste, chemicals, propane tanks, batteries—straight into the river system. The most disturbing part? Local government has known about this for years and did nothing. This wasn’t unforeseen. It wasn’t sudden. It was enabled. This isn’t compassion. This isn’t tolerance. This is environmental negligence, and the damage doesn’t stop at the encampment—it flows downstream.

What do you get when an area holding millions of pounds of trash gets flooded? An environmental disaster. That’s exactly what has happened at Thousand Acres Dog Park, now the site of a long-standing homeless encampment. For years, people have been allowed to live in this floodplain. But more critically, they’ve been allowed to haul in and stockpile millions of pounds of trash—much of it having nothing to do with survival or camping. When the river floods, all of it moves: plastics, human waste, chemicals, propane tanks, batteries—straight into the river system. The most disturbing part? Local government has known about this for years and did nothing. This wasn’t unforeseen. It wasn’t sudden. It was enabled. This isn’t compassion. This isn’t tolerance. This is environmental negligence, and the damage doesn’t stop at the encampment—it flows downstream.

Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾

81,724 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад