Creative Commune ( India )
second nature art project titled – changing
land and urban space
artist ---- Rajib bhattacharjee
Threat to the wetlands
that are so crucial to Kolkata's survival, and yet so fragile…….
The wetlands enjoy the protection of court orders, legislations and
international conventions, but there is no real shield on the ground. In the
past 10 years, nearly 30 % of Kolkata wetlandand natural eco-system has been
converted into concrete. Another quarter of the wetlands are under threat. Land
sharks use an old but ruthlessly effective method of walling up a part of the
wetland and dumping tonnes of fly ash, concrete and garbage in the dead of
night. Within weeks what was once a thriving bheri (fish pond) turns into dry
land and the site for the next ‘‘urbanism ’’.
Kolkata has been facing the
pressures of a growing city, and increased disposable
income in metropolitan India.
The wetlands are crucial to Kolkata's future because they process around
980-million litres of sewage generated by the city's 7 million residents.
According to SunithaNarain of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE),
the first blessing Kolkata has is its own river Ganga and the second is the
city’s eastward slope takes its sewer system to Wetlands which treats it in natural
process and the third blessing Kulti-Gong in the east of wetlands that carries
the sewer to sea.
Creative commune is engaged in nature art practice since its inception
……. Hence nature is our prime concern
……. This is the second nature art project titled – changing land and
urban space ……. The location of the wetland
under threat is ---- near nawajpur , half kilometer north from the sodepur road and kalyani expressway
intersection and on kalyani expressway , north 24-parganas , west Bengal ,
India.
Warning that the city is going to face ‘deliberate hydrocide’ in future,
she said that the ever expanding city is banking on over-withdrawal of
ground-water which is established by the presence of excessive percentage of
arsenic and nitrate in city’s water.
Implementation of sustainable policies can maintain the ecologicalequilibrium
of these valuable water bodies, which, in turn, can enhancesocial,
environmental and economic security of Kolkata in future.
