his family who are members of the coli ethnic group have lived and worked on the banks of the esther e. where the meteor. flows into the arabian sea. but since the early eighty's the river has taken a turn for the worse. from . people throw all kinds of things into the miti river household appliances even biomedical wastes like used syringes and. they don't understand that we depend on this river for everything. i hope people stop doing those. plastic bags in iowa so much other garbage that we can't even row our boats through it at times. our path is blocked by large chunks of garbage floating around. the 18 kilometer long river is the dividing line between the city of mumbai and its suburbs. 70 percent of its banks on both sides occupied by slums for whom the polluted river is the only source of water. the which lies south of the maci is known as one of the world's largest slums it's a hub for small scale industries like china and waste recycling. sewage industrial effluent and other solid waste get dumped into the river indiscriminately and end up flowing downstream to the estrie making it