Source: http://web.bryant.edu/~langlois/ecology/gangesproblems.htm
Brief Description: (1)Ganges River is 1557 miles long(2506km), the Ganges valley or basin is 200 - 400 miles (322 - 644km) wide.It flows eastward and empties into the Bay of Bengal. Its mouths forms a vast delta. At the delta it is joined by the southward-flowing Brahmaputra River. Their combined delta is the largest in the world.The delta begins more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) from the Bay of Bengal and lies mostly in Bangladesh. It is largely a tangled swampland.
(2)There are two major dams on the Ganga. One at Haridwar diverts much of the Himalayan snowmelt into the Upper Ganges Canal, built by the British in 1854 to irrigate the surrounding land. This caused severe deterioration to the wateflow in the Ganga, and is a major cause for the decay of Ganga as an inland waterway.
USES: (1)The Ganges River is used for drinking water, bath , washing clothes and do some important religious ceremonies and festivals.
(2) The river is also used as transportation for the people to catch the fishes.
PROBLEMS: (1) Since the 1950s, population and industry along the Ganges and Hugli rivers have grown dramatically and both municipal and industrial wastewater and sewage have been discharged in large quantities into the rivers. In addition, because of the religious significance of the Ganges, Hindus often cremate their dead on the rivers banks and throw the remains and burnt charcoal into the river. This practice is especially common at Vârânasi. All of these factors have so polluted the river that drinking and bathing in its water have become dangerous.
(2) volume of waste - estimated at nearly 1 billion litres per day - of mostly untreated raw sewage - is a significant factor. Also, inadequate cremation procedures contributes to a large number of partially burnt or unburnt corpses floating down the Ganga, not to mention livestock corpses. Done By: Khairul, Zhi Chong , Resha , Bao Yin and Denise...
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