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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal Now, the Indian government has embarked on a $4 billion campaign to ensure that by 2020 no untreated municipal sewage or industrial runoff enters the 1,560-mile river.
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal GANGA Devout Hindus come from all over to cleanse themselves in the Ganges for the festival of Kumbh Mela, celebrated every three years.
India's Holy Ganges to Get a Cleanup Krishna Pokharel 2010
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal Veer Bhadra Mishra, a Hindu priest and hydraulics engineer in Varanasi, first proposed such a system 14 years ago.
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal Ten million liters of sewage will pass through a series of six specially-designed ponds where sunlight, gravity, bacteria and microalgae will clean the water.
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal In India, water-treatment facilities have been unable to keep up with the growth, often held back by a shortage of funds and other resources.
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal The initiative, which is supported by the World Bank, includes the expansion of traditional treatment facilities and, for the first time in India, the introduction of innovative river-cleaning methods.
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal Treatment plants currently process only 45% of the 11 billion liters of sewage generated by 181 cities and towns along the Ganges and its tributaries every day.
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal The Ganges basin supports over 400 million of India's 1.1 billion people, the majority of whom are Hindus, who revere the river as "mother" and "goddess."
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal Construction of the sewage-treatment facility is expected to start in the next few months.
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Olivier Culmann/Tendance Floue for The Wall Street Journal Hindus revere the river as "mother" and "goddess."
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