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 ...

"The Ganges is above all the river of India ... who's led a campaign there to clean the river for two decades. "Polluted river water is the biggest cause of skin problems, disabilities and ...

This is far from the 40 microplastics per cubic metre recorded in the world's 10 most polluted rivers -- the Yellow River, Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges, Nile, Niger, Indus, Amur, Pearl and Hai -- which ...

The pollution affects the river dolphin population ... The exploration of the river Ganges is an opportunity to see how humans depend on rivers but also pollute them. The Ganges is one of the ...

The Ganges, one of India's largest ... includes a sacred pilgrimage to the river. Tests showed that biochemical oxygen demand (a measure of organic pollution) was double the acceptable level ...

The CPCB report which analysed Ganges water said ... further contaminating the river. Exposure to this polluted water can ...

First of all, let us know about the major rivers of India; these are the Ganges, Yamuna ... due to which river pollution is reaching dangerous levels. The cleanest river is the Umngot River.

Northern India embraces a sprawling network of waters, from the muddy tributaries of the Indus in the west to the banks of the sacred Ganges coiling ... Yet this river-etched heartland is the ...

water pollution, construction of dams and draining of rivers for irrigation. These dolphins once occurred from the delta regions of the Indus and Ganges river systems up into the foothills of the ...

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 ...