Ganges Delta Problems
What are the primary effects of the climate changes?
The water supply of Ganges is schrinking and the river is going to dry out in the future, because the meltwater from the mountains is gone in 20 years and then there is no water anymore from glaciers. So in 20 years the river probably is a dry river.
If the temperature is rising ,the snow is melting of the Himalayan glaciers and an effect is that the melting water comes down into the river which causes heavely floodings.
There are more and heavier erratic rainfalls in the Ganges in the monsoon season.
Warmer and more humid weather.
Increasing of cyclones caused by air-pressure and higher temperatures, which are caused by the climate change.
Ganges and the government
Pollution in the Ganges River occurs daily when civilians from all over come to bath in the most sacred river in India. Cremated bodies, sewage from factories, and occasionally a dead animal float around in the river on a daily basis. Because the river is known as a sacred healing body of water, people who have sicknesses and diseases bathe themselves hoping that it will cure them. Others who go into the polluted her do it because of tradition, especially Hindu priests.
Over the years not much has been done to try to clean up the unsanitary Ganges River. The efforts that have been made have either made it worse or not even worked at all! The city of Varanasi, in India, has begun many groups to help clear up the river and make it clean to bath in once again.
Veer Bhadra Misra, a head priest at the Sankat Mochan temple, founded the Sankat Mochan Foundation. The foundation gives awareness on the need to protect the Ganges River. The foundation had come up with a few ways to try to clean the river up. The plan involves a 4-mile pipeline to intercept all the sewage that would normally flow in to the Ganges from the Varanasi area. The pipeline would then extend another 4
The water supply of Ganges is schrinking and the river is going to dry out in the future, because the meltwater from the mountains is gone in 20 years and then there is no water anymore from glaciers. So in 20 years the river probably is a dry river.
If the temperature is rising ,the snow is melting of the Himalayan glaciers and an effect is that the melting water comes down into the river which causes heavely floodings.
There are more and heavier erratic rainfalls in the Ganges in the monsoon season.
Warmer and more humid weather.
Increasing of cyclones caused by air-pressure and higher temperatures, which are caused by the climate change.
Ganges and the government
Pollution in the Ganges River occurs daily when civilians from all over come to bath in the most sacred river in India. Cremated bodies, sewage from factories, and occasionally a dead animal float around in the river on a daily basis. Because the river is known as a sacred healing body of water, people who have sicknesses and diseases bathe themselves hoping that it will cure them. Others who go into the polluted her do it because of tradition, especially Hindu priests.
Over the years not much has been done to try to clean up the unsanitary Ganges River. The efforts that have been made have either made it worse or not even worked at all! The city of Varanasi, in India, has begun many groups to help clear up the river and make it clean to bath in once again.
Veer Bhadra Misra, a head priest at the Sankat Mochan temple, founded the Sankat Mochan Foundation. The foundation gives awareness on the need to protect the Ganges River. The foundation had come up with a few ways to try to clean the river up. The plan involves a 4-mile pipeline to intercept all the sewage that would normally flow in to the Ganges from the Varanasi area. The pipeline would then extend another 4