{"id":151978,"date":"2021-12-09T21:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=151978"},"modified":"2021-12-09T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:31:36","slug":"water-quality-in-lower-stretches-of-the-river-ganga-found-to-be-alarming-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-quality-in-lower-stretches-of-the-river-ganga-found-to-be-alarming-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Quality in lower stretches of the River Ganga found to be alarming: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the findings of a study, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water Quality in the lower stretches of the River Ganga is in an alarming situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About the study<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of scientists has developed the Water Quality Index (WQI) of River Ganga.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><em><b>Note:<\/b> Water Quality Index (WQI) is considered as the most effective method of measuring water quality.\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>What are the key findings of the study?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Rapid human pressure and anthropogenic activities has resulted in <strong>release of untreated municipal and industrial sewages<\/strong> along with other forms of pollutants in the River Ganga.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, as a result, there has been a <strong>marked increase in discharge of untreated municipal and industrial sewages<\/strong> in the lower stretch of River Ganges, due to intense population pressure on both sides of the river banks.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will have severe consequences for many unique and biodiversity ecosystems such as the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sunderbans-is-home-to-428-species-of-birds-says-zsi\/\">Sundarbans mangrove<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and endangered charismatic species such as the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/project-dolphin\/\">Gangetic Dolphin<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of this study?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The findings from this study will be pivotal for l<\/span><b>ong-term ecological health monitoring of the lower stretch of River Ganga, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">along with the integration of sensors and automation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>Water Quality in lower stretches of the River Ganga found to be alarming: Study<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 8th Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? According to the findings of a study, Water Quality in the lower stretches of the River Ganga is in an alarming situation.\u00a0 About the study A team of scientists has developed the Water Quality Index (WQI) of River Ganga. Note: Water Quality Index (WQI) is considered as the most effective method&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-quality-in-lower-stretches-of-the-river-ganga-found-to-be-alarming-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water Quality in lower stretches of the River Ganga found to be alarming: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-151978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704834618},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}