Malik, A. “Is Ganga losing its resilience?” Down to Earth. 28 February 2011. Is Ganga losing its resilience? By Ankita Malik February 28, 2011 First bacterial diversity study shows high number of pathogens OVER A century ago in 1896, British physician E Hanbury Hankin reported in the French journal Annales…
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Kumari, K., Ranjan, N., and Sinha R.C. “Solid waste management in Patna – analyses of ambient air and ground water pollution.” International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management 2011, Volume 14, No. 1/2/3/4, pp. 310-325. Solid waste management in Patna – analyses of ambient air and ground water pollution By…
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Jagat. “Thousands of fish wash up dead at Vishram Ghat.” Vrindavan Today. 13 November 2010. Thousands of fish wash up dead at Vishram Ghat By Jagat November 13, 2010 Another sign of the holy Yamuna’s pitiable condition came yesterday morning when bathers came to the river to perform their daily…
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Hamner, S. et. al. “The role of water use patterns and sewage pollution in incidence of water-borne/enteric diseases along the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.” International Journal of Environmental Health Research, Volume 16(2): 113-132. April 2006. Click here to read this study. Genre: Environmental Issues Articles, Varanasi Articles, Wastewater Issues…
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Guynup, S. “Dirty River.” Scientific American. June 2010. Dirty River By Sharon Guynup India and China share a grave environmental problem – extreme water pollution The hazy dawn knits river to sky on the banks of the holy Ganges river in Varanasi. Even at sunrise, the city’s 4.5-mile waterfront bustles….
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Haridwar: Swami Nigamananda’s death exposes government failure to stop mining on banks By Padmaparna Ghosh June 27, 2011 On February 19, ‘Clean Ganga’ crusader Swami Nigamananda sat on a fast-unto-death in Haridwar to protest against illegal mining and quarrying on the river bed. The 34-year-old ascetic died on June 13,…
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By KumKum Dasgupta, Hindustan Times June 4, 2010 Anshul Garg faces a big challenge this month. He will have to convince the ‘Dom Raja’ of Varanasi — whose family has been controlling the cremation rituals at the ghats for centuries — to give up the conventional wood pyre system and…
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By Somshankar Bandyopadhyay June 4, 2002 KOLKATA: As World Environment Day approaches, alarming levels of air and water pollution continue to plague the citizens of Kolkata, with the authorities turning a blind eye to the problem. The average suspended particulate matter (SPM), the major indicator of air quality, is at…
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By Kurt Achin, Voice of America September 29, 2011 Dipankar Chakraborti has two obsessions — yoga, which gets him up in the morning, and arsenic contamination, which keeps him up at night. Director of environmental studies at Jadavpur University in West Bengal, Chakraborti has been at the forefront of a…
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EcoFriends July-August, 2003 Illegal sand mining tacitly condoned by influential citizens is causing the Ganga to move further away from its shorelines along a 5 km stretch, in the north Indian city of Kanpur It is not a pretty sight. Miners have erected blockades at the river near the ancient…
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