India’s environmental authorities have raised concerns over dangerously high levels of faecal bacteria in the Ganges river at ...

There are more than 80 ghats along the river, some dedicated to worship, others to cremation. This is the city of Shiva and for Indian Hindus, burning on the funeral pyres by the Ganges means ...

71 percent of the Ganges’ river monitoring stations were reporting “alarmingly high” levels of fecal coliform bacteria. Over 66 percent of drains in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where ...

"The Ganges is above all the river of India, which has held ... three miles downstream to four huge pools where oxygen-enriched bacteria break it down and pathogens are killed by sunlight and ...

India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge in places on its journey through burgeoning cities ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

Coliform level is a key indicator of the presence of untreated sewage and faecal bacteria ... in the Ganges were 1,400 times more than the acceptable limit, and in the Yamuna river, they were ...

India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests. Such changes have been observed in other rivers in recent ...

A huge earthquake that shook southern Asia 2,500 years ago abruptly changed the course of the Ganges River, new research suggests. The earthquake was previously unknown to science, but researchers ...

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India’s environmental authorities have raised concerns over dangerously high levels of faecal bacteria in the Ganges river at Prayagraj, particularly during the Maha Kumbh Mela – a major religious ...