Weekend Reading- Cleaning of the Ganges
Effort To Clean Up Ganges Gains Momentum 09/16/2014 By Neelam Matthews Text size: A A Photo Courtesy of Ganga Action Parivar The Ganges River, India's holiest river, is also it's dirtiest. Officials vow to clean it up within three years. Related Links: Indian Water Resources Ministry webpage ----- Advertising ----- The 100-day-old government’s newly established minister for water resources, Uma Bharti, on Sept. 15 committed to cleaning up India’s largest and holiest river, the 2,500-kilometer-plus Ganges, within three years. The Ganga Action Plan was released by Bharti’s predecessors two decades ago but barely accomplished any of its goals. The pledge comes at an opportune time. The population of people and industrial units in India near the Ganges is ballooning, creating pressure on sewage, wastewater and effluents that are discharged into surface water and causing water-quality problems. Each day, 2.9 billion liters of wastewater from s...