Who is to blame for the contamination of so many of the worlds rivers?
A case study of some of the world’s rivers shows the culprits in their contamination: Governments, multinational corporations (especially those in the mining industry), other manufacturing and industrial companies, commercial agriculture and to a very minimal extent individuals. Governments are to blame for the contamination of the world’s rivers for two reasons: First, governments are responsible because they fail to regulate the disposal of industrial and other waste by individuals, multi-national companies and other companies. For, example, in Nigeria, Shell was able to dump oil waste without any regulation from the government, and people are able to dump dead human bodies in the Ganges River because the government of India is failing to stop that.
