Oshiwara River

Coordinates: 19°09′33″N 72°48′59″E / 19.15917°N 72.81639°E / 19.15917; 72.81639

Oshiwara River
River
Oshiwara river in Jan 2006
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
City	Mumbai
Source	Aarey Milk Colony
- location	Mumbai suburban district, India
Mouth
- location	Arabian Sea, India
- elevation	3 m (10 ft)
- coordinates	19°09′33″N 72°48′59″E / 19.15917°N 72.81639°E / 19.15917; 72.81639

Oshiwara River is a river in Mumbai, India. It begins in the Aarey Milk Colony,^[1] cuts through the Goregaon hills, across the Aarey Milk Colony before emptying into the Malad Creek. On the way it is joined by another creek near Swami Vivekanand Road, before picking up industrial effluents and sewage while crossing the Oshiwara industrial estates and slums of Andheri. The river is highly polluted and encroachments have shrunk it to a narrow stream. Most of the call centres in Malad have been built on reclaimed ground at the mouth of the river.

After the 2005 Maharashtra floods in Mumbai, efforts are on to widen and cleanup the river. Some proposals include converting it into a waterway for barges, setting up small farms on its banks and introduce biogas plants to convert waste into energy.^[2]

References

1. ^ MMRDA studying 5 rivers
2. ^ Can't Push a River

• A Tale of Two Rivers; Times of India (Mumbai); Vaishnavi C Sekhar/TNN, 2006-01-09. (pdf version)