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My home state Kerala in India is subject to rampant sand mining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20dlI0_ZtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20dlI0_ZtU Ironic
by Cherian 7y ago
My home state Kerala in India is subject to rampant sand mining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20dlI0_ZtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20dlI0_ZtU
Ironically, we fuel this via demand for coarse sand in construction.
The impact is immediate. Rivers are drying up and water beds are going deeper down: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/sandmining-sound-the-death-knell-for-the-bharathapuzha/article3462733.ece https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/sand...
- spectramax 7y agoThis is infuriating. The video shows just how casual this whole enterprise is. It would be a piece of cake to enforce laws and shut this down elsewhere, the only way this makes sense is that there is deep rooted corruption?
- vsskanth 7y agoYeah in India local politicians and higher level members of the state government profit from this
- rohan_shah 7y agoThe bjp government along with police is trying to use Satellite surveillance to stop sand mining. But it's only partially working...
- msravi 7y agoAbout 10-12 years ago, almost every construction I came across in Bangalore used to use river sand. Today, most construction sites I see use M-sand or manufactured sand. River sand is at least 4x the cost of M-sand and that has automatically driven people to shift to using M-sand. River sand mining bans have also increased the cost to sand miners, who in turn pass it on to their clients down the chain, so it's helping...