Jammu, June 21 -- Share Tweet Share Anuj Kumar Verma JAMMU, June 21 (KNS) : The rivers of Jammu & Kashmir, the lifelines of the region's culture and civilization, are gasping for life as a lethal cocktail of untreated sewage, biomedical waste, and industrial effluents pushes them to the brink of ecological collapse. The crisis, largely man-made and unfolding in plain sight, has laid bare a grim tale of institutional apathy, policy paralysis, and a deep moral contradiction where citizens pray to their rivers while simultaneously poisoning them. The pollution is not an abstract statistic but a stark reality. The Tawi, the lifeline of Jammu city, is choking on untreated sewage from nearly 19 city drains that discharge into it daily . The hol...