The Ganges river , the most sacred in Hindu culture , has been diagnosed with high levels of pollution , resulting from excessive use and lack of awareness environmental. What are the effects on the population and economy of the region.

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The waters of the Ganges are considered by many believers as purifying and healing, but the truth is that considering the levels of water pollution , we can ensure that it is rather the opposite.

A study conducted over the past two years has proved that the presence of pancreatic cancer , among other cancers similar trips in the region around the river Ganges .

At the same time has proven that water is not exactly what causes cancer, it weakens the organs to a level that end up getting sick and get cancer.

The main problem is that many factories dispose their waste directly into the river, so that many metals are poured into the sacred waters and make this river one of the most polluted in the world. As there is no control, the waste of all kinds, many of them non-biodegradable and the sametoxic .

It is estimated that failure to take immediate and drastic measures, which would generate some logistical problems at the same time, the river is biologically dead soon.

The consequences of pollution of the Ganges river exceeds the mere flow of the river and the wildlife that inhabits it (ba), or how it affects the health of people who bathe there. Another huge problem is that the polluted river water used to irrigatefood crops that then goes to the table of thousands of Indians.

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