No future for Mapusa without river

No future for Mapusa without river

The river flowing past the town is encroached, polluted, silted, eutrophicated with poor tidal flushing, and appears almost dead, and with it, the town’s future may be too Mapusa, having 55,000 residents, the third wealthiest town in Goa by commercial volume and GST contributions, is today a cautionary tale in urban collapse. Once nourished by its ancient drainage networks and the Mapusa River — a tributary of the Mandovi — the town now reels un…