A clean-up drive conducted last week under the banner of the Friends of Bharathapuzha in the catchment area of the Malampuzha reservoir resulted in the collection of a huge quantity of waste, posing serious questions about pollution of the Malampuzha waters.
About 50 bagful of waste was collected by the volunteers who took part in the drive held near Kava. The clean-up drive done for the first time in the dam’s catchment area in recent years has posed many questions about the daily inflow of tourists into the vast stretches of green open land.
Waste is increasingly being dumped in the reservoir in accordance with the recent increase in the arrival of domestic tourists in the backyards of Malampuzha. Although Malampuzha is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the State, very few visitors used to move into the catchment areas. With the popularisation of social media vlogging in recent times, there is a spurt in the inflow of tourists to the catchment areas.
