The Ganges River is in bad shape. Sewage flows into the water that people use to cook, bathe, and perform burial rites. Cleanup efforts are behind schedule.

Montana State University research about pollution in the Ganges River has reached the Supreme Court of India, producing some optimism among MSU scientists who study the 1,500-mile river.

Upstream of the confluence, where the Salori sewage canal meets the Ganges, biochemical oxygen demand—a measure of organic pollution—increased from an average of 3.5 milligrams per liter to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed $3 billion in 2015 to clean up the waterway that provides drinking water for 400 million people. See photos of the devastating pollution in India's holy ...

India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge in places on its journey through burgeoning cities ...

As part of this endeavor, project scientists have now carried out what they say is the first investigation of microplastic abundance along the Ganges river, collecting water samples from 10 sites ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

The water is so bad that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature declared the Ganges-swimming India river dolphin, the country's official national aquatic animal, as functionally ...

By 6:30 a.m., six bodies were burning on high beds of logs on the bank of the Ganges River, fires crackling, ashes flying. Families gathered around the burning pyres. When the fires died, workers t… ...

River Water Pollution: 5 reasons why you should avoid taking bath in Ganga While the Ganges hold a special place in the hearts of many, it is important to prioritise the health of ourselves and ...

But the Ganges’s average fecal coliform count overshoots these limits drastically – as it exits Varanasi, for instance, the count is between 1-2 million per milliliter of water – which means ...