Oshiwara River
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oshiwara River is a river in Mumbai. It begins in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, cuts through the Goregaon hills, across the Aarey Milk Colony before emptying into the Malad Creek. On the way it is joined by another creek near S.V. Road, before picking up industrial effluents and sewage while crossing the Oshiwara indistrial estates and slums of Andheri. The river is highly polluted and encroachments have shrunk it to a narrow stream. Most of the call centres in Malad have been built on reclaimed ground at the mouth of the river.
After the 26/7 floods in Mumbai, efforts are on to widen and cleanup the river. Some proposals include converting it into a waterway for barges, setting up small farms on its banks and introduce biogas plants to convert waste into energy.
[edit] References
- A Tale of Two Rivers; Times of India (Mumbai); Vaishnavi C Sekhar/TNN, 2006-01-09. (pdf version)
