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  2. Pollution of the Ganges - Wikipedia

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    These cities and facilities actively contribute to the river's pollution by dumping untreated waste into it. [17] One coal-based power plant on the banks of the Pandu River, a Ganges tributary, burns 600,000 tons of coal each year and produces 210,000 tons of fly ash. The ash is dumped into ponds, where a slurry is filtered, mixed with domestic ...

  3. List of most-polluted rivers - Wikipedia

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    Untreated industrial and civic waste [85] Yamuna: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, India: 57 million people [86] Second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge, and the longest tributary in India. Accounts for more than 70 percent of Delhi's water supply. Highly venerated in Hinduism and worshipped as the goddess Yamuna.

  4. Water pollution in India - Wikipedia

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    From 2016 to 2017, it is estimated that 7.17 million tonnes of hazardous waste was produced by industrial plants. [9] The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) reported that as of 2016, there were 746 industries directly depositing wastewater into the Ganga, which is the largest river in India.

  5. See photos of the devastating pollution in India's holy ...

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  6. Big Oil’s flagship plastic waste project sinks on the Ganges

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    The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a Singapore-based nonprofit group set up two years ago by big oil and chemical companies, said on its website in November 2019 that its partnership with Renew ...

  7. Marine plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    The 10 largest emitters of oceanic plastic pollution worldwide are, from the most to the least, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Egypt, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Bangladesh, [19] largely through the Yangtze, Indus, Yellow River, Hai, Nile, Ganges, Pearl River, Amur, Niger, and Mekong, and accounting for "90 percent of ...

  8. Environmental issues in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The main source of pollution is untreated domestic and industrial wastewater. [31] Only one third of Philippine river systems are considered suitable for public water supply. [32] It is estimated that in 2025, water availability will be marginal in most major cities and in 8 of the 19 major river basins. [33]

  9. Plastic waste fills Indonesian river and 'never stops coming'

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