Dear Dr.Mophin.Culture and ...

Dear Dr.Mophin.

Culture and religion can cause people to believe and say awfully silly things. The Ganges is highly revered and thought to have supernatural powers in traditional Indian and Hindu culture. However, in modern times, the river is extraordinarily polluted. "The overall rate of water-borne/enteric disease incidence, including acute gastrointestinal disease, cholera, dysentery, hepatitis-A, and typhoid, was estimated to be about 66% during the one-year period prior to the survey.

But that was a few years back. Now on the other hand, an eminent river expert and head of the Ganga Research Laboratory, Institute of Technology (IT-BHU), urges to save the Ganga, which he says is gradually losing its oxygen absorption and retention capacity, adding that the Ganga was the only river in the world which had 12 ppm of oxygen. "The Ganga was once known as the reservoir of oxygen. But, today, it's oxygen has reduced to 4-8 ppm," he said. The Ganges' purifying action has strong scientific evidence, but that power of Ganges is slowly giving up.

It is not entirely known what makes river Ganga so special and what exactly contributes to its self-cleaning properties, but one of the factor is, Bacteriophages they are Viruses that eat Bacteria, Phage means eating.

Process including the flora and fauna acting naturally could be a good solution, self scavenging velocity

In stagnation zone Diatom Algae any river is the best way to improve the SPP it produce extra oxygen, aeration and/or by a variety of aquatic plants aeration and/or by a variety of aquatic plants.

Regards,

Prem Baboo