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Cleaning Up the Ganges
thediplomat.com ^
| September 15, 2014
| Sudha Ramachandran
Posted on 05/06/2015 1:53:53 PM PDT by Gamecock
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05/06/2015 1:53:53 PM PDT
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Gamecock
To: Gamecock
500 MM people crap in the Ganges daily. “Clean” isn’t a word that will be applicable until India has such things as running water & flush toilets.
To: SatinDoll; Larry Lucido; carriage_hill
But with sunrise the veil lifts and the mystique is gone, laying bare the stinking sewer the Ganges has become. Stretches of the river are tar-black. Sewage, industrial effluent, human corpses, and animal carcasses have turned the sacred Ganges into a dying cesspool.
Posted in response to carriage_hill posting this external link elsewhere on FR:
Filthy India Photos, Chinese Netizen Reactions (Very Graphic)
Based on the content posted above, the link certainly seems accurate.
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:57:29 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
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05/06/2015 1:58:00 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: Gamecock
Cleaning Up the Ganges Not just sewage, but I believe the Indians dump their loved one's ashes, and possibly bodies, into the Ganges. With over 1.2 Billion Indians, that's a substantial load.
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:58:19 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(0bama may not be THE antiCHRIST, but he's definitely ANTI - CHRIST!)
To: Gamecock
Won’t that ruin the flavor?
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:58:20 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: Gamecock
When a Chinese person considers your country filthy, that’s saying something right there.
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posted on
05/06/2015 1:58:51 PM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(CW2 has already started, it's just that currently only 1 side is fighting it. Wake up, patriots.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
It seems that they reject flush toilets, and especially in their homes, they see that as terribly unsanitary.
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05/06/2015 2:00:05 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: T-Bone Texan
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posted on
05/06/2015 2:02:02 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
05/06/2015 2:04:35 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: Gamecock
Thanks, i was just looking for that link to post.
disgusting......
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posted on
05/06/2015 2:07:28 PM PDT
by
mowowie
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To: SZonian
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05/06/2015 2:14:56 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: Gamecock
Cleaning up after 444 million people is going to take time and be VERY costly.
But not impossible. 200 years sounds about right.
Start with not throwing dead bodies in the river, build wastewater treatment plants and find ways to reduce and treat industrial waste.
But most of all, keep EPA histrionics out of there, otherwise the costs will just explode.
I believe the Indians are capable of fixing this problem themselves.
Foreign involvement, other than know-how they explicitly ask for, will hinder them in the long run.
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05/06/2015 2:21:49 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: SZonian
Watched a movie about Calcutta on Netflix last night. My years in Haiti were a microcosm of the human blight in major cities in India. Remarkably India has not sought to adopt communist solutions for its problems. It is insistently capitalist. That will bring this nation out of its poverty.
The devastation caused by the US and its thugocracy is limiting nations around the world from achieving their full potential. Ridding ourselves of the liberal scourge will provide the impetus that India and every third world nation requires to improve.
We are able to lead the globe to greater economic strength but only if we end our romance with Marxist tyranny.
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05/06/2015 2:26:27 PM PDT
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Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell
"Ridding ourselves of the liberal scourge..."This is the rub isn't it?
Gonna search NF for said film, thanks.
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05/06/2015 2:31:28 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: SZonian
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05/06/2015 2:46:07 PM PDT
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Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell
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posted on
05/06/2015 2:53:20 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: Louis Foxwell
**Watched a movie about Calcutta on Netflix last night.**
Oh? Do you recall the title?
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posted on
05/06/2015 3:19:51 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: Gamecock
Typ in google: dead people in Ganges river
Click on images. The Indians throw their dead into the river.
To: Gamecock
No matter what the travel brochures say, I don’t think I’ll be going to that place any time soon.
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posted on
05/06/2015 3:24:33 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
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