This document discusses the Ganges River, one of the most polluted rivers in the world. It flows over 2,500 km from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. The document outlines the river's importance in Hinduism and how over 420 million people depend on it for water. However, the river receives huge amounts of untreated municipal and industrial waste, resulting in high bacteria levels that threaten human and aquatic life. Several initiatives have tried to clean the river, such as the Ganga Action Plan, but with limited success. Recent government efforts under the Namami Gange program aim to restore the river to a healthier state over the next 200 years.

1. GANGES
From Gangotri to Bay of Bengal

2. Members
1. Shrikrishna Giram
2. Anand Biyani
3. Ishan Chapadgaonkar
4. Sourabh Bopche
5. Mohit Gautam
6. Krishna Gilda

3. River
 EVS-Wide subject
 Rivers are like our mother.
 WE are polluting it
 Live example of River Polution – mula river

4. Introduction
Geographical location
 Length 2500km
 3rd longest river
 Origin and path
History
 Vedic literature

5. Importance
 Holiness

6. Present Day Position
Industrial waste
 260 millions waste water
 15% of water by volume of total waste
 170 factories and tanneries between Varanasi and Kannauj
 Recent Water samples collected in Varanasi revealed Fecal-
Coliform counts of about 50,000 Bacteria per 100 ml of
Water which is 10,000% higher than the Government
standard for safe river bathing

7. Municipal sewage
 1.3 billion ltrs of sewage water
 80% by volume of total waste
Pressure due to increasing population
 Waste control infrastructure unchanged

8.  Human effect
 80% health problems
 1/3rd death due to vicinity

9. Need to clean Ganga
Dependency of Humans on Ganga
 Drinking ,Bathing, agricultural water
 30 cities,70 towns and thousands of villages on banks of
Ganga
 420 million people (1/3rd population) depend on Ganga
water

10. Consequences of pollution
1) On Marine life
 Decrease in number of fish
 Mercury content increasing in aquatic animals
 Life of dolphins endangered
o Less than 2000

11. 2) On Human Life
 Water borne diseases
o Diarrhoea, cholera, hepatitis
o Heart and kidney problems
 Fishing occupation
o Decrease in fishing occupation by 45%
3) Wild life
 Death of Birds due to polluted water
 Harms food chain
 Effects on ‘mahasir’ due to Koti-bhel dam in devprayag

12. Coliform bacteria
safe level of..
 Drinking- 50 mpn/100ml
 Bathing- 500 mpn/100ml
 Agricultural -5000 mpn/100ml
Presently in ganga
 5500 mnp/100ml

13. Preserving Ganga
“Charity Begins at Home”
 Duties as a citizen
 Fasting of Swami Nigamanand saraswati
 Swami Shivananda
Swami Nigamananda Saraswati fasting
Swami Shivananda

14. Samadhi of Swami Nigamananda Saraswati
Swami Nigamananda Saraswati

15. Charter of activities proposed by Ganga
Ambassadors
 ‘River Bank Vigilant Squad’
 Quizzes, Debates at School level
 Holding Protests forcing Government agencies
 Workshops, Seminars by Eco Clubs
 Role of NGO’s
 NGOs like Eco-Friend, Gangajal Nature Foundation
are making efforts to preserve Ganga

16. Role of GOI
GAP(Ganga action plan)
 Proposed by Rajiv Gandhi
 Money spent -9,000cr
 Reasons of failure
 Withdrawl of plan

17. Law offenders
Recent activities
 NaMo’s Promise
 So far money spend
 Formation of special ministry as ‘Ganga Rejuvination
Ministry’
 Under Sadhvi Uma Bharti

18. Budget 2014
 2037cr allocated to ‘NAMAMI GANGA’
 Set up of NRI fund to boost cleaning efforts
 Formation of team of 40 army officers under Lt General

19. Adaptation of Ghats by Corporate Companies
Supreme Court’s recent decision
 Plan of 200 years

20. Sabarmati River
Sabarmati River in the Past Present Sabarmati River

21. River Rhine
Past River Rhine
Rhine River at Present