We Are Killing Ganga Ma!!

About 12 years ago, someone was trying to pump underground water in Ghaziabad area. It came out yellow. Why? It was because; the criminal industrialists in that area were disposing off their toxic waste in a creative way. They were pumping it underground. Yes, this is not a typing mistake. These greed driven homicidal maniacs were pumping toxic chemicals into the earth. I guess “Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam” is only for the books. Down the road from Ghaziabad is another hellhole by the name of Kanpur inhabited by equally unscrupulous industrialists. These sons of Mother India are disposing of Tannery chemicals into Gangaji. Tannery chemicals include an extremely toxic heavy metal called Chromium.
What about the rest of us, the aam aadmi? What is our culpability in polluting Mother Ganga? How about sewage and other kinds of trash into the holy river? Everybody thinks that the toxins and the garbage are going to flow down the river away from their houses. What happens is that the inorganic and organic material, foreign to the river, consume the oxygen in the water? The river ecosystem has a minimum Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) to sustain an aquatic life i.e. a healthy river. No oxygen means no aquatic life which in turn means a dead river!!! The Hindus living along Mother Ganges are killing her. Shameful, is it not???????

Is Future of the Ganga Bleak!
Ganga, the holy River, it is said when the King Bhagirath managed to bring it to the earth, came with such a force that he had to invoke the help of Lord Shiva to contain the River’s might. The Ganga was lost in the labyrinths of long tresses of the Lord and by the time it emerged again, it was much quieter river. Even today, the Ganga’s might and roar has to be seen to be believed in the higher Himalayas, where it seems to be attempting to break the shackles and rush towards the ultimate destination, the Sea!

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