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KANPUR: WHERE THE GANGES DIES

Kanpur is on the road to nowhere. Lucknow, just 50 kilometres away across the Ganga, has the airport,

history, architecture and the culture. Kanpur has factories, money and pollution and a strictly functional

relationship with Ganga



Kanpur is considered one of the most polluted city in India,Ganga at Kanpur is dirty, unappetizing and

synonymous with pollution in almost everyone's eyes.



The tanneries in Kanpur supply all the big fashion brand in the western world



According to a UN report, India occupies the third place in the ranking of 122 countries with the worst

quality of water.The recent report of a U.S. agency forecasts, by 2030, the death of Indian sacred river

because of global warming, water pollution and construction of dams along the river.Ganges death not

only will ravage the economy of that area but, moreover, it will affect deeply the local people spiritual

life, with its ancient rituals and traditions.



Five hundred million people, about 8 percent of the world's population, live in the Ganges basin.