Why is the ganges river so dirty?

Answer 1

More than 400 million people live along the Ganges River. An estimated 60,000 persons ritually bathe daily in the river, which is considered holy by Indians. In the Hindu religion it is said to flow from the hair of the god Shiva. The spiritual and religious significance could be compared to what the Nile river meant to the ancient Egyptians. While the Ganges may be considered holy, there are some problems associated with the ecology. It is filled with chemical wastes, sewage and even the remains of human and animal corpses which carry major health risks by either direct bathing in the water ,or by drinking the highly contaminated water.

Answer 2

The pollution that is in the Ganges river is all sorts of inshore is a list of them

• PHYSICAL
• Sewage from many cities along the river's course, industrial waste and religious offerings wrapped in non-degradable plastics add large amounts of pollutants to the river
• The deceased are floated free to decompose in the waters
• Thousands of Hindu pilgrims bathe in the Ganges, which they believe to be holy
• CHEMICAL
• Toxic Chromium from tanneries
• MICROBIOLOGICAL
• Eighty per cent of all illnesses in India and one-third of deaths can be attributed to water-borne diseases
• Varanasi releases around 200 million litres of untreated human sewage into the river each day, leading to large concentrations of faecal coliform bacteria

Answer 3

There are various reasons why the Ganges River is heavily polluted. For example, there is the fact that there is little regulation.

Answer 4

because it conatains nova gas