River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India.

A river with a difference

A Gangetic blunder

Gaps in GAP

The Ganga Action Plan has many flaws, but work on cleaning the river should continue

Can Ministry of Jal Shakti save Indian rivers?

The new ministry has its work cut out as old ministries’ track record in cleaning and saving river basins hasn’t been great

Bioindicators of pollution

Another bend in the Ganga

The political economy of defecation

Beware of the Ganga

A dip in the Ganga was meant to purify both body and soul. But devotees in Bihar have had a bad experience

GAP full of holes

The parching of India's Venice

Kerala finds its rivers drying up and beginning to die

Run of the mill

Rivers' dry run

Ten of the 15 monitored river basins registered a dip in their reservoir levels between May 2014 and 2019

Narmada has been killed in Gujarat, say activists

Members of Vadodara-based non-profit say the river downstream of Sardar Sarovar is now seasonal and carries only seawater and sewage

What Namami Gange has achieved in one year

This animation explains whether the new government's ambitious scheme to clean the Ganga has brought any results

Holy muck

CHINA

Operation salmon

Gaps in action

An alternative plan to clean up the river Ganga at Varanasi has been submitted by a local NGO

Worship now, repent later

Do Indian festivals have to be as polluting as they are at present?

British river turns surrogate Ganga

Spirited ruin of a village

Effluents from a liquor factory in Banka district spell doom for many villages around the unit and also pollute the Ganga.

Working to cleanse the Ganga

Several government and voluntary agencies are involved in the onerous task of cleaning up the country's best-known river.

Purifying the Ganga

"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India's civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru

Simply put: Arunachal's pristine river Kameng turns into a dumpyard