I think there has been some efforts to clean it but in India , so I’m told, there are some cultural ideas about polluting and littering that are difficult to get people to address.
And also it’s common to bury people in the river. So it’s full of decomposing bodies too.
I grew up near the Mississippi River and that river is almost as dirty as this one.
I was told as a kid that at one time it was crystal clear.
It’s hard to imagine.
Now it’s muddy and gross and you can’t eat anything from it. And if you swim in it, you should probably get a tetnus booster.
Sad to see some of the largest rivers in the world completely destroyed.
ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 2 months ago
god himself doesn’t want anything to do with this radio active waste called ganges xD
daannii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think there has been some efforts to clean it but in India , so I’m told, there are some cultural ideas about polluting and littering that are difficult to get people to address.
And also it’s common to bury people in the river. So it’s full of decomposing bodies too.
I grew up near the Mississippi River and that river is almost as dirty as this one.
I was told as a kid that at one time it was crystal clear.
It’s hard to imagine.
Now it’s muddy and gross and you can’t eat anything from it. And if you swim in it, you should probably get a tetnus booster.
Sad to see some of the largest rivers in the world completely destroyed.