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Clean water and shade for Mumbai: restoring the Liberty canal

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Liberty canal needs $400 for saplings and equipment.

🇮🇳 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India816 views
Tarun B. Mittal
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Mumbai
The Liberty canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 48 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 56 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $400 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $100 • Tools and protective gear: $80 • Native saplings and stakes: $220 If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people. - Tarun
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Tarun

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 20% funded and the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled.

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