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/^t/Pollution of our rivers, streams, lakes, pounds has become our great concern. Water - the symbol of life - is coloured with chemical effluent. Not only street washings but also industrial wastes and other refuse are discharged into the rivers and change them into large and malodorous sewage drains. Such repulsive fluids flow carrying rags, papers, and assorted filth. Fish, which we have no longer the pleasure to see, are the victims of our progress. It is not too difficult to notice that riverbanks are also ugly cluttered with rotting and rusting debris.