GROUP 1

Name of river: Ganges River.

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Brief Descriptions:

- The Ganges is 1557 miles long (2506 km).

- The Ganges Valley, or basin, is 200 to 400 miles (322 to 644 km) wide.

- The river starts in an ice cave on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, some 10,300 feets (3,140 metres) above sea level.

- The delta begins more than 200 miles (323 km) from the Bay of Bengal and lies mostly in Bangladesh. It is largely a tangled swampland.

- There are two major dams on the Ganga. One at Hardwar diverts much of the Himalayan snowmelt into the Upper Ganges Canal, built by the british in 1854 ti irrigate the surrounding land. This caused for the decay of ganga as an island waterway.

- The other dam is serious hydroelectric affair at farakka, close to the point where the main flow of the river enters bangladesh, and the tributary hooghly (also know as bhagirathi) continues in westbengal past calcutta. This barrage, which feeds the hooghly branch of the river by a 26 mile long-lingering source on dispute with bangladesh.

- Sheer volume of waste-estimated at nearly 1 billions liters per day of mosly untreated raw sewage.

- Also, inadequate cremation procedures contributes to a large number of partially burnt or unburnt corpses floating down the ganga, not mention live stock corpses.

Two uses of the river:

- People bathe and wash clothing there

- Drink water from the river, they take the supply of water from the river as they think that it is very convenience.

Two problems of the river:

- Pollution of the river, they burry the ashes of bodies below the river and throw the ashes in

- Water has been ischarged into large quantities into the river

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