Villagers in water-scarce village revive polluted river
Around 700 people from a water-scarce village in Alappuzha, Kerala revived the Kuttemperoor river after it remained polluted for almost two decades. The villagers took 70 days to pick up garbage, and remove weeds and toxic waste dumped due to sand mining and construction sites. The river started reviving and the flow started on the 45th day, a villager said.