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The Holy river Ganges in the piercing pictures. Photo

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. ФотоThe real Shrine for Hindus.

The sacred Ganges begins, as crystal-clear river from the glacier Gangotri in the Himalayas. It ranks 3rd in the world in the water content after the Amazon and the Congo. But the farther it flows the Holy Ganges, the dirtier it becomes. It “kills” all the way human waste and industrial effluents, turning the river into a poisonous pond.

Let’s follow the Grand river from mountain source to the metropolis of Calcutta, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal.

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This river is worshiped by nearly a billion Hindus. It is the main source of water for 400 million people — more than any other river in the world.

1. It is the confluence of tributaries Alaknanda and Bhagirathi, from here begins the Ganges. Tributaries of the Ganges differ in type and origin into several types. The first is the rivers and streams that formed in the Western Himalayas near Gangotri glacier

Here in Devprayag very clean. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Sin is not expiated. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Here is a complete harmony with nature. Here Hindu priests sit in a cave and pray on the banks of the Ganges river in Devprayag. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Ganga in Hindu mythology, the celestial river that descended to earth and became the Ganges river. Since ancient times, is considered a sacred river for Hindus. But we move on. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Evening prayers on the banks of the river Ganges in Haridwar. The city of Haridwar in the Indian state of Uttarakhand is one of the seven main Holy cities of Hinduism. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Here the river is still clean but is showing signs of trouble. Thousands of Hindus every day immersed in the waters of the Ganges believing that it frees the life from sin. Here are dipped and figures of the gods. Some of the gods here and remain forever. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Young people bathed in the Ganges river in Kanpur. This is one of the most populous cities of India in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Located on the Ganges river to the South of Lucknow.

And something not so — it is clear that the water is totally dirty and opaque. In India, people drink water from the river use it for irrigating agricultural crops, washed, and immediately erased. Children bathing in the Ganges, regularly treated against diseases, waterborne dysentery, cholera and severe diarrhoea, which is one of the leading causes of child mortality here. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

In the industrial city of Kanpur, the water becomes dark gray. Industrial waste and sewage poured into the river without hesitation. For example, leather production. What to do with black technical flows? Of course in the river Ganges. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

The raw material of the leather industry. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

In these places on the surface of the Ganges already floating cloud of foam. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

On one part of the river becomes completely red. It’s all Kanpur. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

The Ganges river in Kanpur. Yes, absolutely it is not like a pure river with the first photos. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Another industrial leak, the current in the river Ganges. Goats is better to step through it. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Another dumping of sewage. Waste water flow in the Ganges river in Kanpur. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

And we are already in Mirzapur, a town on the North of India, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Sewage from a residential neighborhood runs right into a sacred river. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Nearby river flows into some industrial stuff with foam. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Where dumped household garbage in Mirzapur? Of course on the banks of the Ganges. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Varanasi (lit. “between two rivers) is considered a Holy city for Buddhists and generally the most Holy place in the world in Hinduism (as the center of the Earth in Hindu cosmology). One of the oldest cities in the world and possibly the oldest in India.

In murky water here into head, rinse the throat and drink. Next wash clothes. Women don’t have swimsuits, it is common to swim in clothes. A hundred meters above the current spend of funeral cremation and dumped in the Ganges, the ashes from the pyres. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Near relatives of the deceased immersed his body into the river. In this place the Ganges is not quite similar to what once came down from the Himalayas. It’s already a dump. Although sacred. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Immersion in the Holy Ganges goes to the cremation. After cremation, the ashes are here. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

Nearby to clean the boy. It’s all Varanasi. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

This is the Calcutta. It looks like the banks of the Ganges. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

In Kolkata near the river is a large brick factory, all waste water which also fall into the river. More than two thirds of the wastewater generated in 118 cities along the basin of the Ganges river, into the river without treatment. (Photo By Danish Siddiqui | Reuters):

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

And here’s the water from the river Ganges in Kolkata. You don’t want?

Священная река Ганг в пронзительных снимках. Фото

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