There is a need to take a scientific look at the fate flowers & leaves (as a part of puja) when disposed off in water. Do they really impart COD/BOD or change pH or they purify the river water given the bactericidal or fungicidal properties of these materials. Let all the reputed CSIR institutes / CPCB & SPCBs to work "pollution potential of flowers & leaves in river water" to clarify doubts of all the devotees, anti-superstition groups, members of NGOs & GOs.

The social survey of awareness of all the saints, gurus, their disciples may reveal the need of their awareness to educate the masses for prevention of river pollution.

The awareness of pious devotee is possible only when their saints, gurus give away the habits which lead to river pollution.

According to me river Yammuna is a big problem in Allahabad because it is merging into Ganga so we have to clean Yammuna in Allahabad before merging into Ganga.
Attach proposal show how we can clean ganga in Allahabad.

Saw the terrible condition of river Ganga all along Jajmau,Kanpur and near the railway bridge connecting Unnao and Kanpur. Lot of tannery waste is being flown into the river making the water as toxic. In the flood plane of Ganga watermelon, cumamber,,melon and kakri is being grown with lot of pesticides which is again be added to river water making it toxic. The people ues this flood plain to relieve themselves .Even the dead cattles ,human bodies have been seen in this area . No check on all .

24 July 2014 ko pura din Haridwar Har ki podi par raha waha sabse badi kami ek to Nahane wale nhane ke baad Kapde wahi sidiyo me chhod jate h. Pooja Samgri or kado ke liye layi gayi Plastic bag bhi wahi dal dete h. sabse badi ek kami ye bhi h ki mahilao ke liye kapde badalne hetu koi intezaam najar nahi aaya. agar ho sake to Mahila Snan ke liye sabhi bade tirth sthalo par mahila snan ki alag vyavstha ki ja sake to behtar hoga. bahut se log to sirf isi vajah se bheed badhate h.

WATCH YOUR STEPS ON GANGA GHATS IN THE MORNING..

I wanted to perform religious rituals at the bank of Ganga in Varanasi. I went at 4 AM to the ghats ( Nov 2012) . I was angry to find fresh human waste deposited on the steps of the ghat. It was systamatically done by a set of human beings. I realised that it was a delibrate plan by a section of society.

Action: Please post night gaurds at all Varanasi ghants to ensure that no one delibrately causes filth at tha ghats.

DIRTY DOZEN

Ganga is polluted at following major towns/cities located it banks :

1. Rishikesh
2. Haridwar
3 .Kannuj
4. Kanpur
5. Farrukhabad
6. Fatehgarh
7. Mirzapur
8. Allahabad
9. Varanasi
10. Patna
11. Bhagalpur
12. Munger

If, in the first phase, we eliminate unloading of sewarage into Ganag directly, the quality of water will improve.

Action: Sewage treatment plants to be installed at these loactions & water used for irrigation.No discahrge to be made to river Ganga.

unacceptably toxic water containing known poisons continues to be dumped every day directly into Ganga, the river which provides millions with drinking, bathing, and cooking water and water for the millions of crops grown.

Each day more than 1,124 tons of chromium is dumped freely into Ganga, reaching levels of concentration 790 times higher than acceptable standards. The chromium VI dumping into Ganga alone makes the treated wastewater fifteen times more dangerous than domestic sewage. This chromium has directly affected more than 30,000 people, entering into the groundwater, and has affected thousands more by entering the food chain,