ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Question
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Factories along the river dump industrial waste and chemicals into the river every day
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No one is allowed to cremate dead bodies along the river since the large factories have been built
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Industries located along the river use so much water that the Ganges is almost dry by the time it reaches the sea
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Factory owners have refused to allow the Indians living along the river to bathe in the water/use the water for cooking
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Detailed explanation-1: -How has India’s need to develop more industry ended up creating problems along the Ganges River? Factories along the river dump industrial waste and chemicals into the river every day.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plastic and industrial waste, such as wastewater from the factories that sit on the banks of the Ganga, is another cause of pollution. The most worrying problem facing the river is its increasing lack of water. Water for irrigation is being removed faster than the rainy season can replenish it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Too much water is being removed for farming and other uses, barrages and dams disrupt the Ganges’ natural flow, and pollution from homes and industries have badly contaminated what’s left of this once mighty, free-flowing river.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to the study, the prominent reasons for the pollution in Ganga are, increased population along its banks, dumping industrial wastes, religious tradition which result in floating of 40000 dead bodies on the water of Ganga. These are the reasons why Ganga has been declared as Biological Disaster.