MURKY MUSI  

Greater Hyderabad tag for city spells greater troubles for the already dirty and dying Musi, says Roli Srivastava
 

On a dry and hot afternoon in a leafy corner of Osmania University, professor K Muthyam Reddy slips into a nostalgic mood reliving his childhood in Pedagudem village where the walk home from school was the most awaited moment of the day, when he would jump into the river with his friends, play in the sparkling water to beat the heat, fish and even drink that river water. The river was Musi and today, he says, he cannot imagine dipping his finger into it.  

A few dozen campaigns, some multi-crore promises and innumerable academic studies later the story of the Musi river stands the way it has for many years now - dirty and dying. Experts now say that the river’s future appears grimmer with the city expanding to become Greater Hyderabad.

Muthyam Reddy, who has conducted studies on Musi pollution, says that Musi is Hyderabad’s “natural wealth”, one that the city may lose with its rapid development. “The ground and surface water in villages like mine are already contaminated,” Reddy says, his interest in the subject largely due to the childhood he had.
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