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From its pristine source high in the Himalayas, the Ganges cuts across the Indian subcontinent to its destination at the Bay of Bengal providing water to 400 million Indians. Besides the use of water to 400 million Indians. Besides the use of water for drinking and agriculture, Hindus have bathed in its waters, which have been revered as a source for spiritual cleansing for thousands of years. Recently, however, pollutants in the forms of cremated bodies, human sewage, and chemical effluents from factories have severely poisoned the river, creating an extremely troublesome problem for all living along its banks.
