Question

write two reaaon of the water of river ganga polluted.

Answer 1

The main cause of water pollution in the Ganga river are the increase in the population density, various human activities such as bathing, washing clothes, the bathing of animals, and dumping of various harmful industrial waste into the rivers.

Human waste

The river flows through 30 cities with populations over 100,000; 23 cities with populations between 50,000 and 100,000, and about 48 towns.A large proportion of the sewage water with higher organic load in the Ganga is from this population through domestic water usage.

Industrial waste

Because of the establishment of a large number of industrial cities on the bank of the Ganga like Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Patna, countless tanneries, chemical plants, textile mills, distilleries, slaughterhouses, and hospitals prosper and grow along this and contribute to the pollution of the Ganga by dumping untreated waste into it. One coal-based power plant on the banks of the Pandu River, a Ganga tributary near the city of Kanpur, burns 600,000 tons of coal each year and produces 210,000 tons of fly ash. The ash is dumped into ponds from which a slurry is filtered, mixed with domestic wastewater, and then released into the Pandu River. Fly ash contains toxic heavy metals such as lead and copper. The amount of parts per million of copper released in the Pandu before it even reaches the Gang is a thousand times higher than in uncontaminated water.Industrial effluents are about 12% of the total volume of effluent reaching the Ganga. Although a relatively low proportion, they are a cause for major concern because they are often toxic and non-biodegradable.

Religious traditions

During festival seasons, over 70 million people bath in the Ganga to clean themselves from their past sins. Some materials like food, waste or leaves are left in the Ganga which are responsible for its pollution. Traditional beliefs hold that being cremated on its banks and to float down the Ganga will atone for the sins of those who die and carry them directly to salvation. In Varanasi alone, an estimated forty thousand bodies are cremated every year, many of those are only half-burnt.