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Mhmmm and the literally dozens of STPs being built along her banks is for just that. Such basic bloody things hadn’t even commenced prior to 2014, unbelievable.
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I am not talking about whether they care or not but certainly they can judge. I have been visiting Ambaji temple for years but now i can see it plated with Gold.
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They are Neo Britishers and they are sad with all achievements of country. Like many christian missionaries who thought that only they can teach and civilize Indian children with their Missionary schools some time ago. Now Hindu missionaries have much better schools than they can ever imagine. So they are upset and so as Commies and Siculars who think they are repositories of narrative of what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. They are becoming irrelevant . They just tries to be relevant but in an era or resurgence of Nationalism and Hinduism.
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They have a perpetual hate for Hindus..
And that make them hate the Hindu nation..
Its a war they are waging with themselves inside their head...confused sods.
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After 8 years! India's 1st dolphin research centre to come up in Patna
According to Gopal Sharma, a senior scientist at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), the population of the endangered Gangetic river dolphins was stable along nearly 1,000 km stretch of the Ganga and its two major tributaries, Gandak and Ghaghra.
More than 1,500 dolphins were spotted by three teams of experts and scientists who undertook the exercise of enumeration of the species earlier this year. The NDRC will play an important role to strengthen conservation efforts and help in research to save the endangered mammal.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...centre-to-come-up-in-patna-1567323-2019-07-12
According to Gopal Sharma, a senior scientist at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), the population of the endangered Gangetic river dolphins was stable along nearly 1,000 km stretch of the Ganga and its two major tributaries, Gandak and Ghaghra.
More than 1,500 dolphins were spotted by three teams of experts and scientists who undertook the exercise of enumeration of the species earlier this year. The NDRC will play an important role to strengthen conservation efforts and help in research to save the endangered mammal.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...centre-to-come-up-in-patna-1567323-2019-07-12
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The effluent generation has reduced from 501 MLD (million litres per day) in 2011-12 to 321.87 MLD. Organic pollution load on the river has also decreased from 263 kg/MLD in 2011-12 to 65.24 kg/MLD in 2018-19, as a result of various measures. #EconomicSurvey2019 #NamamiGange
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The Sarai Plant is the first project to be completed under the Hybrid Annuity Based Public-Private Partnership Model, and the Plant has been completed before its scheduled time.
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This is an iffy website. I have seen them go propaganda way earlier. Still article is good
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/covid-19-lockdown-a-ventilator-for-rivers-70771
COVID-19 lockdown: A ventilator for rivers
Of 36 monitoring units placed in the Ganga, water quality at 27 points was found suitable for bathing and propagation of wildlife and fisheries in the lockdown period.
By Sumita Singhal, Mahreen Matto
Last Updated: Wednesday 29 April 2020
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown has put millions in the throes of adversity — and yet, there is a reason to celebrate. Over a month into the nationwide lockdown, air and water pollution levels have shrunk and the wildlife is free.
We have inadvertently been cruel to nature, but the lockdown elicited a change of course. They say ‘Coronavirus is Earth’s vaccine. We’re the virus’. Perhaps, it’s true.
Status of rivers in India
India’s water bodies are in a poor state. In the name of economic growth, most rivers and streams have been turned into sewer canals and are getting difficult to be treated.
It is estimated that every day, almost 40 million litres of wastewater enters rivers and other water bodies; only 37 per cent is adequately treated.
Source: CPCB
A Centre Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report showed that critically polluted river stretches in the country have increased from 302 stretches in 2016 to 351 stretches in 2018. The finding was based on Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD).
The intensity of the situation can be assessed through the figures presented by CPCB to National Green Tribunal in August 2018. Only five of 70-odd monitoring stations had water fit for drinking; and seven had water fit for bathing.
Ganga
The Ganga water quality imporved remarkably during the lockdown period. The 2,500-kilometre river has been an important part of India’s history, identity, religious beliefs and economy for thousands of years.
But the river became a dumpyard for untreated sewage and industrial waste. According to CPCB, more than half of wastewater treatment plants in the basin do not comply with the discharge norms.
Since 1985, several programmes and schemes have been launched to clean the Ganga. It began with the Ganga Action Plan I, followed by Ganga Action Plan II.
In 2015, the biggest-ever initiative, Namami Gange was launched with a budget of over Rs 20,000. Despite numerous programmes and huge funds, the Ganga still runs polluted.
Ganga projects
COVID-19’s gift to Ganga
The Ganga enters Uttar Pradesh in Bijnor district and passes through major districts such as Meerut, Bulandshahar, Aligarh, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, among others.
The nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 25, 2020, and within 10 days, signs of improvement in water quality started surfacing. According to the real-time water monitoring data of the CPCB, out of the 36 monitoring units placed at various points of the Ganga river, the water quality around 27 points was found suitable for bathing and propagation of wildlife and fisheries.
On April 4, at Varanasi’s Nagwa Nala, the Dissolved Oxygen (DO) values were found increased to 6.8 milligram/litre against 3.8 mg/l on March 6, showcasing an extraordinary improvement of 79 per cent in DO values.
PK Mishra, professor of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, attributed these changes to industrial lockdown and rainfall on March 15 and 16 that increased the water levels of Ganga.
He stated that 30 per cent of the total BOD load was due to industries along the river, which amounted to 130-150 tons per day.
The total effluent dumped into the Ganga was around 6,500-6,700 million litres per day (MLD) in its UP stretch and onwards. Around 10 per cent was toxic load from industries, around 700 MLD.
Since all major polluting industries are closed, the toxic load is off the river.
Ganga water at Haridwar and Rishikesh was reported fit for drinking due to 500 per cent decrease in sewage and industrial effluents. A dip in the number of visitors at ghats in Haridwar also helped the river water quality.
Source: CPCB data on on March 28, 2020
The Ganga water has become fit for ‘achaman’, which means ritual sipping, after a long time, according to BD Joshi, an environmentalist.
In a CPCB assessment report, it was found that most stretches of the Ganga from Garhmukteshwar in Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal were not only violating drinking water standard, but recorded very less dissolved oxygen and high of total coliform (bacteria from human and animal waste) levels.
Many of the same stretches, according to CPCB’s real-time water quality monitoring of the Ganga on April 19, met the drinking water standards; the biological oxygen demand was < 3 mg/l, dissolved oxygen was >4 mg/l and pH 6 to 9.
These included few stretches such as Kannauj, bathing ghat and barrage in Kanpur, Fatehpur bridge, Narora, Varanasi bathing ghat 1, Sukartal Ghat, Bhitpur, and Ganga nullah, Murshidabad and Howrah Bridge in West Bengal.
The causes
More than 80 per cent of pollution in the Ganga is due to domestic sewage from surrounding towns and villages. The rest is contributed by industrial waste.
During the lockdown, domestic sewage would have increased owing to increased demand for water to maintain hand-washing hygiene. Industrial waste, however, stopped entering the Ganga.
Other activities such as tourism, fairs, bathing and cloth washing near the ghats were curtailed. Experts said these observations reflected that domestic sewerage was not the only cause of concern.
Zero industrial pollution increased quality of water in the Ganga, According to another analysis by Manoj Mishra, convenor, Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan.
Mishra said that “when sewage is mixed with industrial effluents, it gets difficult for the river to assimilate pollution. One more reason was high number of western disturbances which brought rain and improved the flow in the river leading to dilution”.
“Improvement in Ganga water is a function of quality and quantity. Water is not being lifted by industries, so there is more flow in the river and pollutants are getting diluted. At the same time, effluents are not being discharged.
Because of the harvesting season, the agriculture sector also isn’t withdrawing much water now,” said Suresh Rohilla, Senior Director, Centre for Science and Environment.
He added: “If you leave nature on its own, it survives and comes back to life. But levels will go back up as soon as we reopen the economy.”
There is an urgent need to:
An important question here is: Do we really want such changes to happen at the cost of a pandemic? Or is there an opportunity to reconsider our development paradigms, lifestyles and economic pursuits so that there is less impact on our planet?
Unanimously, synergy for absolute symbiosis between nature and human being is the need of the hour.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/covid-19-lockdown-a-ventilator-for-rivers-70771
COVID-19 lockdown: A ventilator for rivers
Of 36 monitoring units placed in the Ganga, water quality at 27 points was found suitable for bathing and propagation of wildlife and fisheries in the lockdown period.
By Sumita Singhal, Mahreen Matto
Last Updated: Wednesday 29 April 2020
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown has put millions in the throes of adversity — and yet, there is a reason to celebrate. Over a month into the nationwide lockdown, air and water pollution levels have shrunk and the wildlife is free.
We have inadvertently been cruel to nature, but the lockdown elicited a change of course. They say ‘Coronavirus is Earth’s vaccine. We’re the virus’. Perhaps, it’s true.
Status of rivers in India
India’s water bodies are in a poor state. In the name of economic growth, most rivers and streams have been turned into sewer canals and are getting difficult to be treated.
It is estimated that every day, almost 40 million litres of wastewater enters rivers and other water bodies; only 37 per cent is adequately treated.
Source: CPCB
A Centre Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report showed that critically polluted river stretches in the country have increased from 302 stretches in 2016 to 351 stretches in 2018. The finding was based on Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD).
The intensity of the situation can be assessed through the figures presented by CPCB to National Green Tribunal in August 2018. Only five of 70-odd monitoring stations had water fit for drinking; and seven had water fit for bathing.
Ganga
The Ganga water quality imporved remarkably during the lockdown period. The 2,500-kilometre river has been an important part of India’s history, identity, religious beliefs and economy for thousands of years.
But the river became a dumpyard for untreated sewage and industrial waste. According to CPCB, more than half of wastewater treatment plants in the basin do not comply with the discharge norms.
Since 1985, several programmes and schemes have been launched to clean the Ganga. It began with the Ganga Action Plan I, followed by Ganga Action Plan II.
In 2015, the biggest-ever initiative, Namami Gange was launched with a budget of over Rs 20,000. Despite numerous programmes and huge funds, the Ganga still runs polluted.
Ganga projects
COVID-19’s gift to Ganga
The Ganga enters Uttar Pradesh in Bijnor district and passes through major districts such as Meerut, Bulandshahar, Aligarh, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, among others.
The nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 25, 2020, and within 10 days, signs of improvement in water quality started surfacing. According to the real-time water monitoring data of the CPCB, out of the 36 monitoring units placed at various points of the Ganga river, the water quality around 27 points was found suitable for bathing and propagation of wildlife and fisheries.
On April 4, at Varanasi’s Nagwa Nala, the Dissolved Oxygen (DO) values were found increased to 6.8 milligram/litre against 3.8 mg/l on March 6, showcasing an extraordinary improvement of 79 per cent in DO values.
PK Mishra, professor of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, attributed these changes to industrial lockdown and rainfall on March 15 and 16 that increased the water levels of Ganga.
He stated that 30 per cent of the total BOD load was due to industries along the river, which amounted to 130-150 tons per day.
The total effluent dumped into the Ganga was around 6,500-6,700 million litres per day (MLD) in its UP stretch and onwards. Around 10 per cent was toxic load from industries, around 700 MLD.
Since all major polluting industries are closed, the toxic load is off the river.
Ganga water at Haridwar and Rishikesh was reported fit for drinking due to 500 per cent decrease in sewage and industrial effluents. A dip in the number of visitors at ghats in Haridwar also helped the river water quality.
| MONITORING STATION | Parameter | Values |
| UPSTREAM OF GANGA BARRAGE | DO | 8mg/litre |
| BOD | 2.1mg/litre | |
| pH | 7.90 | |
| Ammonia | 0.49mg/litre | |
| DOWNSTREAM OF GANGA BARRAGE | DO | 7.90mg/litre |
| BOD | 1.21mg/litre | |
| pH | 7.91 | |
| Ammonia | 1.1mg/litre | |
| SHUKLAGANJ | DO | 8.51mg/litre |
| BOD | 2.1mg/litre | |
| pH | 7.68 | |
| Ammonia | 0.79mg/litre |
Source: CPCB data on on March 28, 2020
The Ganga water has become fit for ‘achaman’, which means ritual sipping, after a long time, according to BD Joshi, an environmentalist.
In a CPCB assessment report, it was found that most stretches of the Ganga from Garhmukteshwar in Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal were not only violating drinking water standard, but recorded very less dissolved oxygen and high of total coliform (bacteria from human and animal waste) levels.
Many of the same stretches, according to CPCB’s real-time water quality monitoring of the Ganga on April 19, met the drinking water standards; the biological oxygen demand was < 3 mg/l, dissolved oxygen was >4 mg/l and pH 6 to 9.
These included few stretches such as Kannauj, bathing ghat and barrage in Kanpur, Fatehpur bridge, Narora, Varanasi bathing ghat 1, Sukartal Ghat, Bhitpur, and Ganga nullah, Murshidabad and Howrah Bridge in West Bengal.
The causes
More than 80 per cent of pollution in the Ganga is due to domestic sewage from surrounding towns and villages. The rest is contributed by industrial waste.
During the lockdown, domestic sewage would have increased owing to increased demand for water to maintain hand-washing hygiene. Industrial waste, however, stopped entering the Ganga.
Other activities such as tourism, fairs, bathing and cloth washing near the ghats were curtailed. Experts said these observations reflected that domestic sewerage was not the only cause of concern.
Zero industrial pollution increased quality of water in the Ganga, According to another analysis by Manoj Mishra, convenor, Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan.
Mishra said that “when sewage is mixed with industrial effluents, it gets difficult for the river to assimilate pollution. One more reason was high number of western disturbances which brought rain and improved the flow in the river leading to dilution”.
“Improvement in Ganga water is a function of quality and quantity. Water is not being lifted by industries, so there is more flow in the river and pollutants are getting diluted. At the same time, effluents are not being discharged.
Because of the harvesting season, the agriculture sector also isn’t withdrawing much water now,” said Suresh Rohilla, Senior Director, Centre for Science and Environment.
He added: “If you leave nature on its own, it survives and comes back to life. But levels will go back up as soon as we reopen the economy.”
There is an urgent need to:
- Reinvestigate the main source of pollution in Ganga and reorient all river cleaning policies and programmes based on lockdown findings.
- Industries need to strictly adhere to discharge norms accompanied with strong enforcement of laws and regulations vis-a-vis strong monitoring and vigilance framework.
- Setting up of effective interventions to clean rivers, reliable, representative and comprehensive data collected at high frequency in a disaggregated manner. The CPCB and Central Water Commission have installed 36 real-time water quality monitoring stations on the Ganga, the Yamuna and tributaries of Ganga, but that is not sufficient. There is an urgent need to expand the network in more places.
- Over-extraction and over-exploitation of Ganga’s waters have rendered long stretches of the river completely dry for much of the year. A river’s ability to cleanse and recharge itself is significantly impaired by over-extraction of surface and ground water for irrigation, industrial and domestic usage. There is a need to maintain river flow to keep it clean for longer run.
- Education and awareness needs to be carried out strategically.
An important question here is: Do we really want such changes to happen at the cost of a pandemic? Or is there an opportunity to reconsider our development paradigms, lifestyles and economic pursuits so that there is less impact on our planet?
Unanimously, synergy for absolute symbiosis between nature and human being is the need of the hour.
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Wasn't recent report shown that ganga is cleaner now as compared to earlier
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I am not aware of that and due to lots of dams, during summar ganga dries to a trickle and there are still pollutants being dumped in the river. Look up this account raj bhagatt on twitter he is a expert on these geology stuff and usage of sat maps, very knowledgeable fellow. https://twitter.com/rajbhagatt
Also, during events like say sangam they release water when they do most of the stuff gets washed away quality improves further....so it depends on when data was taken.
I wanted it to be more used for like say inter city river transportation joining various cities that would be amazing. More riverfronts would be welcome addition.
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why depend on others to form opinions on publicly available information, folks(so called experts) withhold information based on their biases
as far as Ganga is concerned, pollution monitoring is automated. You can just check in the website.
if the website is note here in the below link, it is there somewhere here at DFI.
Collation of GOI websites for Modi Government initiatives
This thread can be used to collate Government of India websites under various initiatives. Post the link along with a screen shot. Preferably websites with graphical UI info-system appreciated
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Are you referring to this one?why depend on others to form opinions on publicly available information, folks(so called experts) withhold information based on their biases
as far as Ganga is concerned, pollution monitoring is automated. You can just check in the website.
if the website is note here in the below link, it is there somewhere here at DFI.
Collation of GOI websites for Modi Government initiatives
This thread can be used to collate Government of India websites under various initiatives. Post the link along with a screen shot. Preferably websites with graphical UI info-system appreciateddefenceforumindia.com
http://www.uppcb.com/river_quality.htm (it does have data of river quality for jan 2022, it seems that it is updated at few months)
River Monitoring Portal - UPPCB
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https://nmcg.nic.in/NamamiGanga.aspx this website has more info on projects but afaik i skimmed not much on live data.
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it used to be here, you may have to do detective work to find out where this link has been movedAre you referring to this one?
http://www.uppcb.com/river_quality.htm (it does have data of river quality for jan 2022, it seems that it is updated at few months)
there's this which has linnks to cams at different river places but those links don't work.River Monitoring Portal - UPPCB
https://nmcg.nic.in/NamamiGanga.aspx this website has more info on projects but afaik i skimmed not much on live data.
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There was this website too https://indiawris.gov.in/wris/#/GWQuality
Data is not that in detail but there are reports, haven't looked into every thing. Can also get the water levels in different section.
