ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Question
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Most people in India do not feel the river is polluted so they are not worried about it
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The government of India has not made the cleaning up of the Ganges River one of its goal.
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Few people have gotten sick from the water in the Ganges River, so it it hard to get money for clean-up operations.
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India’s combination of growing population and run-off from farming makes it hard to see much progress in controlling pollution
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why has the Indian government had such a hard time making much progress in cleaning up the Ganges River? India’s combination of growing population and run-off from farming makes it hard to see much progress in controlling pollution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The country’s government, led by Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party that reveres the river, committed nearly $3 billion of funds to a five-year clean-up of the Ganges, due to be completed in 2020.
Detailed explanation-3: -The mission has yielded results with river water from Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand to Uluberia in West Bengal improving between 2014 and 2020, according to the data of India’s Jal Shakti Ministry. However, the progress is very slow.
Detailed explanation-4: -Much of the river’s pollution load-from chemical effluents, sewage, dead bodies, and excreta-comes from these States. In the Ganga basin, approximately 12, 000 million litres per day (mld) of sewage is generated, for which there is now a treatment capacity of just 4, 000 mld.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 2015, the government launched Namami Gange, an integrated conservation mission to curb pollution and revive the river, with a budget of 200 billion rupees ($2.45 billion). The initial target was to clean up the river by 2019, but this was extended to 2022 with an additional budget of 100 billion rupees.