Ganga Religion And Water Pollution
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MOTHER GANGA LIFE, PURITY AND A GODDESS TO ALL HINDU PEOPLE
Transcript of Ganga Religion And Water Pollution
MOTHER GANGA
LIFE, PURITY AND A GODDESS TO ALL HINDU PEOPLE
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Once the Ganges were beautiful
Now it is this
Through out history People have worshiped and praised water
because they knew that with out it they would die.
Today most of us take our water for granted. We have for gotten how valuable
water really is and how it must be respected.
Source of pollution• 200 million liters of
untreated human sewage is drained in to the Ganges river every day
• Half burnt bodies and cremated ashes are floating along the river
• 1.7 billion Domestic and industrial pollutants such as major leather companies are dumping their waste into the river daily out of which 1.4 billion are untreated
Click here to see a video of the Ganga River in India.
MAJOR DISEASES • E-coli• Typhoid• Tuberculosis • Gastrointestinal
bleeding
Why are people getting these diseases?
They:•Drink•Bathe•Do their
dishes
• Wash their clothes
• PlayIn the polluted
Ganges river
What if it happened to you• Would YOU wash your clothes in
the Ganges river • Would YOU dink out of the river • Would YOU bath in the river
WHAT IF IT WAS ALL YOU HAD
Effects of pollution in the river
• Fishes in the Ganges river are becoming extinct
• The Ganges dolphin has a population of only 2000and is now an endangered species
Can They Be Educated? The Hindu people understand and know the river’s Conditions; Yet to them this river is their mother, their provider and they can’t leave her in her time of need. They will continue drink from her and pray in her waters and until something is done.
Solutions • Add campaigns and
awareness• a type of algae that
eats feces that is use to turn sewage in to fertilizer could be use to clean the Ganges river(advanced integrated wastewater oxidization pond system)
Sewage treatment plants (STP) along the river
Construction of bathing ghatsSolid waste management
systems Bio gas/electical
crematoriums Improving river bank to
reduce erosion
Sources• http://www.ecoworld.com/waters/clean-the-ga
nges-2.html• http://sankatmochan.tripod.com/GangaPolluti
on.htm• http://creativecommons.org/• http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endanger
ed_species/cetaceans/abou t/river_dolphins/ganges_river_dolphin/
• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_solutions_offered_for_cleaning_Ganga
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