Despite multiple projects and mass drives to protect Ashtamudi Lake, waste dumping continues to choke the Ramsar site.
Many parts of the waterbody are currently covered with garbage and plastic waste and during the monsoon the situation is expected to turn worse.
Earlier, a survey conducted by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) had revealed that the lake is under pollution stress due to multiple factors, including solid waste dumping and discharge of sewage. Since many drainage channels emerging from households and business establishments open to the lake, local bodies were instructed to launch redressal measures on a war footing.
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