Do you know how many crores of people meet the needs of Ganga water? Why did British sailors take the Ganges water with them?
At what height are the Ganges river glaciers? And how does the water of the river Ganges itself clear?
If not, stay connected till the end of the video because we
can tell you such facts, which you may have had or heard about before.
So let's start with amazing facts about the Ganges River.
The Ganges extends from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal.
Its extension is 2414 km long. The place where Ganga originates from the Gangotri
glacier is Gaumukh. Which means cow's mouth. This river nurtures 500 million
people from Gangotri to Calcutta and caters to the need for water.
The Gangotri glaciers span from 13,400 feet to 17,600 feet.
According to reports by National Geographic, it is shrinking rapidly and its
level is becoming work due to which the biggest reason is global warming.
It is decreasing by about 60 feet every year. And some people
also believe that most of these glaciers can be finished in just 40 years.
Looking at these two pictures, you can guess how much the level of glaciers has
changed in the last hundred years.
Do you know the Ganges river has more than 100 names? But its
specialty is also that it is the most sacred river in the world and is counted
among the other most polluted rivers as well. Its most surprising thing is the
purity of its water, which has always been about which no one fully knows.
During the year 1800, British sailors had decided that they
would take the Ganges water along with them to England because the water of
other rivers becomes bad. Like the water of the Thames River in London, it
would have deteriorated only a few weeks after it left London. But the Ganges
water remained fresh throughout the journey. This is the reason that Ganga has always
been mysterious and wooing.
India's highest dam - Tehri Dam is built on this Ganges
River. About 16 similar hydroelectric dams have been built on the Ganges. While
14 are still under construction. And around 54 have gone into the proposal
which can be made in the future. But the problem here is that their own data
shows that no plans for ecological flow have been made on any of these dams,
due to which large parts of the river will dry up in the coming time. And in
this way, the structure and spread of the river itself will change.
The Ganges water remains clean till Rishikesh, but the real
pollution starts after Rishikesh which badly contaminates the water of this
river. And from this, a lot of Ganga water is poured into the Upper Ganges
tributary.
In Kanpur, 850 km from the glacier, people do not like to
take a bath in the water of the Ganges river because the water here is not very
dirty. One of the biggest reasons for this is the industries and factories of
Kanpur. The chemicals released from them contaminate the water so much that it
does not even last for a bath. This water becomes so dirty that its color turns
almost black.
The largest tributary of the Ganges is the Yamuna River,
which is far away from the mainstream of the Ganges. And this tributary passes
next to the Taj Mahal, the famous building of India and the world. But with the
passage of time, the water of this river has become very dirty. And as it
reaches Agra from Delhi, it remains as a pit full of garbage.
Even now a few small rivers have ended and turned into
drains. Like there used to be a river in Delhi called Sahibi River and it was a
freshwater tributary of the Yamuna River. And today you can know it by the name
of Najafgarh drain. It is really surprising that now it is completely filled
with garbage and dirty water.
Similarly, a river in Mumbai named Mitti River, surprisingly
it is called Nala in government documents.
But this growing pollution is huge as the society gets
richer.
After going beyond Kanpur, the Yamuna river joins the Ganga
river in Allahabad. And this place is also called the union of Ganga Yamuna
Saraswati.
And this is the place where Ganga starts doing her own work
to improve herself. This means that the Ganges water starts coming here. And
here people also come in large numbers to take a bath in the Ganges. And
passing through Varanasi.
About 500 million people of India live on the banks of the
Ganges. One-third of the land of India is irrigated with the water of the
Ganges.
Every river cleans itself but the river Ganga clears itself
very fast in comparison to other rivers. This specialty is not found in this
river from the Himalayas, but this feature is present in its bottom. Such
elements are present in the Ganges floor due to which bacteria, which rotate
the water and make people sick, are destroyed by themselves.
People believe that there is bacteriophage in it, which means
that there are bacteria in its water that thrive on other bacteria to live
themselves and kill them and live on their own.
But this capacity of the river Ganga is also decreasing and the
reason for this is increasing pollution day by day.
And we are all responsible for this increasing pollution. Many NGOs and governments are also trying to keep it clean and tidy.
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