Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...
A recent report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB ... The CPCB report which analysed Ganges water said: “The river water quality was not conforming to the primary water quality ...
Forty percent of India gets its water from the Ganges ... a sacred pilgrimage to the river. Tests showed that biochemical oxygen demand (a measure of organic pollution) was double the acceptable ...
The world record for a volunteer river clean-up has been smashed by 998 with 1,327 people taking part. The previous record ...
The first population estimation of riverine dolphins in India has revealed the presence of 6,327 dolphins in the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus river systems, according to a government report published ...
Hundreds of millions of Hindu devotees have bathed in sacred waters, despite concerns over overcrowding and water pollution ... made cleaning the Ganges, India’s holiest river, a priority ...
Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...