Water Pollution in India

India, the second most populated country of the world, has recently been plagued by water pollution in its Ganges River. Veer Bhadra Mishra, a 70 year-old Hindu Priest, who lives along the river, has contracted typhoid, polio, jaundice, and many other water-borne ailments from drinking this river’s water. Even Mr. Mishra’s daily prayers cannot save this river and the thousands of people and businesses affected by the Ganges Pollution. An extreme 60,000 bacteria are in each mL of Ganges water. What is the cause of this vast amount of pollution? A daily dumping of 32 streams of raw sewage in addition to the yearly 30,000 corpses left in the water. The pollution is taking a huge toll on Hinduism because Hindus believe the Ganges is the “source of life”; however, it is causing death. Access to toilets is sparse and sewage treatment is too expensive for India’s budget. This is another reason for the pollution in water of India and the on average 1,000 children dead everyday from diarrhoeal sickness. However, money is not a reason to have polluted water. India has dedicated 1.2 billion to cleaning up the rivers has spent only half of this in effort to improve the water. The sewage treatments that have been built cannot use their full capacity because of the constant power cuts. Even though India has made some small steps to purifying their water, they must act quicker because their population and country is being harmed.