Oshiwara River is a river in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It begins in the Aarey Milk Colony

Aarey Milk Colony

Aarey Milk Colony is situated in Goregaon East, a suburb of Mumbai. It has gardens, a nursery, lakes, an observation pavilion, picnic facilities, and milk plants....

, cuts through the Goregaon

Goregaon

Goregaon is the locality situated at the north of Mumbai . It is a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway railway line....

 hills, across the Aarey Milk Colony

Aarey Milk Colony

Aarey Milk Colony is situated in Goregaon East, a suburb of Mumbai. It has gardens, a nursery, lakes, an observation pavilion, picnic facilities, and milk plants....

 before emptying into the Malad Creek

Malad Creek

Malad Creek or Marve Creek is a creek in north-west Mumbai. Located west of Malad, the Oshiwara River drains into it. To the west is Madh Island, and to the east lies Versova. Earlier it was surrounded by a area of mangroves. But now this area has shrunk to as the real estate prices in Malad went...

. On the way it is joined by another creek near Swami Vivekanand Road, before picking up industrial effluents and sewage while crossing the Oshiwara

Oshiwara

Oshiwara is a neighbourhood in northern Mumbai, India very near to Lokhandwala Complex. The name of this neighbourhood was derived from the Oshiwara River. Located between the western sides of Goregaon and Jogeshwari, it has a large number of industrial estates. A railway station was scheduled to...

 industrial estates and slums of Andheri. The river is highly polluted and encroachments have shrunk it to a narrow stream. Most of the call centre

Call centre

A call centre or call center is a centralised office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone. A call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product support or information inquiries from consumers. Outgoing calls for telemarketing,...

s in Malad have been built on reclaimed ground at the mouth of the river.

After the 2005 Maharashtra floods

2005 Maharashtra floods

The 2005 Maharashtra floods refers to the flooding of many parts of the Indian state of Maharashtra including large areas of the metropolis Mumbai, a city located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, on the western coast of India, in which at least 5,000 people died. It occurred just one month after...

 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

Biogas

Biogas typically refers to a gas produced by the biological breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Organic waste such as dead plant and animal material, animal dung, and kitchen waste can be converted into a gaseous fuel called biogas...

plants to convert waste into energy.