India's Ganges River Now Filthier Than Ever, New Study Says

[EAK]

Is it true there are sometimes dead bodies in the river? Like humans?

Pictures are too graphic can't post them here..Just google Ganga dead bodies

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Until unless you start closing drains, sewage canals, industrial waste this is not going to stop. If all the waste flowing in it is stopped, Ganga can clean itself within 5 years.

 

[WhyCry]

About to throw up really. Indians bathing in their own filth. Then they complain why whole world laughs at them

Don't you worry; Pakistan is craving for the same water. Don't throw up unless you will have to drink it too.

Until unless you start closing drains, sewage canals, industrial waste this is not going to stop. If all the waste flowing in it is stopped, Ganga can clean itself within 5 years.

Its the industrial waste that doesn't decomposes. 95% of the animal/human waste decomposes in 24 hours.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Case closed. Holy Ganga being quintessentially Ganga. That leaves Dravid India. Any updates on the Adivasi and Munda's?

 

[supun1]

Its the industrial waste that doesn't decomposes. 95% of the animal/human waste decomposes in 24 hours.

Not at such a high concentration with lack of oxygen. It will take 24 hours in wastewater treatment plant, where oxygen is being pumped in at million of liters per hour by huge aeriation pumps and specificaly engineered bacteria is present.

 

[Mugwop]

Until unless you start closing drains, sewage canals, industrial waste this is not going to stop. If all the waste flowing in it is stopped, Ganga can clean itself within 5 years.

This wouldn't happen if congress govt was in power.

 

[JOEY TRIBIANI]

Is it true there are sometimes dead bodies in the river? Like humans?

Yeah ashes too.

 

[TOSSIT]

Its not as much about giving it a religious angle as saying that the onus falls on Hindus to take the initiative to clean it up. Afterall, it is a holy river for Hindus and a lot of the contributing factors to the decline of the river can be blamed on the actions of the worshippers (if not all). Even if Dalit (who are hindus) and muslims (who may not have sentimental attachment to the river) don't take up the initiative, there are other politicians nationwide, not just in UP who are Hindus and should be at the forefront of this change, not to mention the common Hindus like you and I.

I may be misplaced in how I'm saying this, but the intention is to initiate action.

You ARE giving it a religious angle by putting the onus on Hindus to clean up the Ganga for religious reasons.

Cleaning up your rivers and environment is not a "hindu" responsibility. its a HUMAN responsibility IRRESPECTIVE of whether you find the river "holy" or not.

Hindu religious bodies have been demanding cleaning up of the Ganga from 1960's.

All industries contributing to pollution, hindu or muslim or whoever else should be penalized.

And I'm glad someone noticed finally and wish them success in this endeavor!
Though Ill hold off on the celebration until something actually changes on the ground.

You can start by celebrating the fact that there is a responsible govt. that is NOT abdicating its responsibility unlike the past and is making war efforts to save the Ganga.

Modi has already earmarked Rs. 20,000 crore (around 3 Billion $) for cleaning the Ganga, but for things to change on the ground we need a BJP state govt. in UP.

Around 30 drains in and around Varanasi discharge 300 million litres of sewage into the Ganga, but there are only three sewage treatment plants - one with a capacity of 80 million litres per day (MLD), second with a capacity of 12, and the third with a capacity of 10 MLD.

There are 1,200 small scale industries in and around Varanasi and not one has a sewage treatment plant.

And ALL this is just Varanasi, UP.

UP Ganga basin has a population density of 520 persons per square km as against 312 for the entire country. They are all forced to use the Ganga as their sewage line.

 

[war&peace]

Faith buddy..

Wow..believe me I can't see these images without cringing sitting thousands of km away from it in my clean and cozy cottage. Any thought of ever visiting this place will cause me throw up. I can't imagine what kind of thoughts goes through a person mind when he or she step in this dirty water while i can imagine the stench could be smelt a few km from the river.

 

[nair]

A lot of talk and no action by the government.....

Well, I agree govt had ambitious plan there.... but you cant blame them entirely.... It is the citizen's who make it filthy....

 

[Jugger]

Faith buddy..

Faith is bearable but blind Faith kills.

 

[TOSSIT]

Faith is bearable but blind Faith kills.

No one survives Life.

Sometimes blind faith is the only thing that keeps us alive.

 

[livingdead]

ganga is pretty clean upstream near uttarakhand... its only when it reaches plains it becomes so filthy... we got a bottle of ganga water for our relative.. they used it for puja for quite long.. I dont want to think that the water is mixed with industrial waste, sewerage, human ashes and deadbodies...

 

[Spring Onion]

poor gangs seems to carry tooo many human sins. time to kick close it for dumping your sins atleast for a year. Let the ganga first get rid of already accumulated sins.

 

[livingdead]

poor gangs seems to carry tooo many human sins. time to kick close it for dumping your sins atleast for a year. Let the ganga first get rid of already accumulated sins.

I agree.. reminds me of this song for some reason