Can Chennai's Coovam become its 'Cheonggyecheon'? Coovum, for those who are not familiar, is a giant sewage river that runs through the city. As you drive around Chennai you cannot miss it. Even if you are a tourist travelling behind dark glassed cars with the A/C on, your nose won't miss it.
I have seen black and white photos of Chennai from the early 20th century. Coovam was not always a smelly, dirty river. Once upon a time it had fish and other living beings in it. Clean water used to flow in it. Today, no life can survive it. I suppose almost every third world city has a Coovam. What is third world without it.
Every now and then there are talks of cleaning the Coovam. Even this week there were reports about building check dams across it. Coovam originates in the west of the city and it is not polluted. By the time Coovam meets the sea it is highly polluted.
I would assume that in a water starved city, there would be enough interest in recovering the water from the sewage. And/Or pump sea water in and boats could provide transportation and touristy trips on the river.
Bangkok's Chao Praya river does all this, except the sea water part. The view of the city and the temples from it is beautiful. Come to think of it, pretty much every romantic and beautiful city in this world has a river running through it. And many of them were not clean as they are now. So there is hope for Coovam too. May be we can learn a few tips from Seoul.
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Posted by: HausBlada | June 26, 2011 at 01:20 PM
Coovam can be curable if the private institutions take attention to look back the History and its sprits.
Posted by: knight online noah | June 23, 2010 at 08:50 AM
Hello Raj sir,
As you have hope I have hope too. As I experienced when I was studying at University of Madras a two years back our class room is very near to that coovam river linkage with sea(near Napier Bridge. We never went to study economics without consumeing a small bit of coovam pollutions in our nose. Even it still creates same pollutions. university department also politically polluted. so the class rooms also still remains polluting. Government has no incentive to cure coovam pollution but political parties have huge incentives to take attention to try to cure at some extent only it may not possible fully. Because the department slum development board and other concerned department functions folly.
Coovam can be curable if the private institutions take attention to look back the History and its sprits.
It is interesting to look coovam looking hopes from such a long distant as I live Indore.
Posted by: chandrasekaran | July 17, 2006 at 12:13 AM