A Geographical and Microbiological Assessment of Ganga Water in and Around Dakhshineswar Area, West Bengal

Abstract

Geographical and Microbiological study was done on river Ganga pollution in and around

Devising a people-friendly test kit for overcoming challenges in the assessment of water quality and analysis of water pollution in the river Ganga

“…Ganga is among the largest rivers of the Indian sub-continent, which originates from the Gaumukh ice cave of the Gangotri Glacier and drains into the Bay of Bengal while traversing about 2525 km through Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. 1,2 The lives of more than 400 million people depend on this river for their daily needs. It is also considered as the most sacred river in India, embodied as a living goddess and symbolized by Mother Ganga.…”