Uttarakhand's efforts to clean the Ganga show progress, yet significant challenges persist, including sewage treatment and STP compliance, per CPCB's 2024 report
A recent study conducted by researchers at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has raised concerns about the future of agriculture in the low-lying areas of the Ganga basin.
Despite being considered purifying and healing by millions of Hindus, the truth is that the waters of the Gange are so polluted that they have caused more than 50,000 cases of pancreatic cancer, among other diseases, in the population of northern India.