A Hindu priest has convinced the Indian government that the Ganges needs to be cleaned up because he has contracted potentially fatal diseases from the symbol of spiritual purity which the Ganges is revered as.
So, it is polluted then?
Indian officials signed an agreement with the World Bank on Tuesday to use a $1 billion loan to finance the first major new effort in more than 20 years to cleanse the revered Ganges, one of the world’s dirtiest rivers.
India Aims $1 Billion at Sacred but Filthy Ganges
[Edited: 2011 Jun 16 10:46 - Mell:49612 ]
[Edited: 2011 Jun 16 10:48 - Mell:49612 ]
Reply to this Of course its polluted - 90% of the worlds water ways are, the ganges however has been used as the lifeblood of the area for so long that human impacts as population increase cannot be ignored any longer. You cannot use a river as your drinking water source, sewage, garbage disposal and larder along with the odd dead body having been in there for the last few centuries and expect it not to be unpure..in every way.
It is probably too late for the Ganges.
Reply to this It is probably too late for the Ganges.
After reading this posting I was sitting here wondering how you would begin on this project? It will require changing a culture. It is wonderful that the pollution and need for change has been acknowledged-- that is a place to start.
In the 1960's Lake Erie in the United States was so polluted that it caught on fire. It took years to clean it up but they stuck with the project and today it is an entirely different river.
I wish them good luck
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