Despite financial burden and technical warnings, Telangana government had taken the mamoth task of emptying Hussainsagar Lake and filling it with new and clean water. While the government is hell bent on this cleaning mechanism, environmentalists and scientific groups term it as a sheer waste of public money.
Save Our Urban Lakes (SOUL), a voluntary organisation terms the proposal to empty Hussainsagar to clean as totally unscientific. They demand that a proper Environmental assessment should be done and made public. They also questioned the government why it did not shut down the industries that are polluting the Hussainsagar Lake.
“It is a total waste. Okay we shall consider that the Lake is cleaned and filled with fresh water. Then the wastes will again be dumped in to the lake by the industries. What did government do to stop that? Did at least one industry near the lake made alternate method of waste disposal”, quipped a SOUL activist.
