Solutions:
1. Industrial Pollution: Over a billion liters of untreated toxic chemicals are dumped into what should be pristine drinking water, every day. As a result, people living alongside parts of the Ganga are the most prone to contracting certain cancers than those residing anywhere else in the world, reports the National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP) under the Indian Council of Medical Research.
2. Unenforced Laws: According to the Water (Prevention and Control) Act, those that repeatedly pollute our aquifers should be punished with sizable fines and up to seven years of jail, yet in a direct violation of laws and court decisions, the CPCB reports that 764 grossly polluting industries continue to spew over a billion liters of deadly waste daily into the same Ganga water that will fill the drinking cups of our children and fertilize the crops that will wind up on our dining plates. Other laws, including the Human Rights Act, the Forest Act, the Biodiversity Act and the Environmental Protection Act, as they relate to the River Ganga, are similarly being violated and unenforced on a daily basis.
3. Toxic Farm Runoff: The run-off from chemical pesticides and fertilizers into aquifers such as the Ganga is detrimental to human health and to already-threatened ecosystem.
Solutions:
1. Corporate and Industrial Violators Must be Fairly Warned, Shut Down and Punished: There are no gray areas where the repeat poisoning of the River Ganga and its population is concerned. The practice is illegal and punishable by sizable fines and imprisonment, according to the Water (Prevention and Control) Act of 1974 and other applicable laws and judgements.
2. A Special Ganga Police Force should be immediately empowered to enforce the law through investigations, fines, detention and other actions against repeat corporate and industrial offenders.
3. Mandate Organic Zones: All farms located within 500 metres of the Ganga and other important aquifers should become mandated organic farming zones. Producers should be propelled to success through educational outreach, special governmental subsidies and lending assistance as well as help in securing access to markets, domestic and foreign, which have special interest in organic goods.