[KM] ♥Keep_Mailing♥ River Ganga Now Left With Just 15 % of Pure Water

River Ganga Now Left With Just 15 Pct of Pure Water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The River Ganga, which is considered pious and believed to wash away sins, is on its pinnacle of pollution. The river is now left with just 15 percent of its original water, while the remaining 85 percent is sewage. What makes the condition worse is that numerous conservation efforts of crores of rupees have been futile to restore the purity of the river, reported Neha Shukla for TNN.

Uttar Pradesh receives a large share of the Ganga waters, but it is also a major contributor of pollutants to the river. UP has slacked in saving the Ganga among the four basin states, namely, UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar and West Bengal, said a recent pollution data compiled by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Out of 594 industries whose sewage get discharged in the holy river, UP has maximum industries (495). Further, the state alone discharges 1,800 million litres per day (MLD) waste into the river daily, out of a total 4,030 MLD. CPCB data revealed that sewage and industrial effluents cause "80 percent pollution in Ganga".

States have been given funds to set up sewage treatment plants, sewer networks, sewage pumping stations, electric crematoria, community toilets and river fronts, but the situation stills seems bleak.

 

Kumbh Mela Spikes Pollution in Ganga to a Startling Level

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ganga, the holiest river which represents religious spirit of millions of people in India is also one of the most polluted rivers in the world and it comes with no surprise that the Kumbh Mela is adding to the preexisting taint of the river.

The Kumba Mela is the largest Hindu religious festival that brings together the biggest crowd to the banks of the river Ganga and is reported to add to the dreadful levels of pollution, as warned by the environmentalists, reported Dean Nelson for Telegraph.

The government has been asked by the social activists to take action to protect the devotees who immerse themselves at the confluence or Sangam of the Ganges and the Yamuna River from the chemical pollution and human sewage in these rives.

The government is taking measures to reduce the human and industrial waste from leather factories that are discharged into the river, however the effect of over 80 million worshippers bathing in the river and roosting on the river banks has drastically raised the organic pollution to dangerous levels, during the festival.

The Uttar Pradesh state pollution control board carried out tests and found that the levels of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), which checks organic pollution, were over seven milligrams per litre, which is double the maximum acceptable level just after the first day of the Kumbh Mela. An estimated 10 million devotees bathed in the Ganga on the first day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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