The River Ganges: The Effluetion Of The River Ganges

The river Ganges is one of the largest rivers in the world. It is considered to be one of the holy rivers and it has important cultural significance. It flows through India and Bangladesh. There is a huge population alongside parts of the Ganges. As a result of industrial revolution and with the growth of industries, the Ganges River is one of the world’s most populated rivers. The river helps many people by supplying them water for bathing, drinking, etc. Pollution of the River Ganges is caused by many sources, but this proposal focuses on tannery effluents and sewage pollution. Tannery means a place where animal hides are tanned. First, let’s see how tannery effluents cause pollution. A collective study by Nagpure, Srivastava, Kumar, Dabas, Kushwaha, & Kumar (2015) tells us how tannery effluents cause pollution. They checked the mutagenicity and bioaccumulative aspects of tannery effluents in different aquatic animals like freshwater murrel, etc. “The results showed that there is higher micronuclei instigation, atomic irregularities and % tail DNA was seen (ibid.)” (Nagpure and other writers, 2015). The discovery of the present examination demonstrated pollution in the Ganges due to tannery effluents. According to Govt plans strict action against factories polluting

Many type of tanning industry discharges different type of waste into the river and makes it unsafe for use as a source of drinking or bathing, with the use of hazardous liquid effluents containing both organic matters and dangerous toxic chemicals, such as chromium, arsenic, mercury and chemical dyes, etc. “80-90% of tanneries use chromium as a tanning agent, of this, the hides take up only 60-70%, leaving the rest to be discharged as industrial waste”(Industrial Waste Management). The presence of Arsenic in groundwater sources has been detected in the states where the Ganges