http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/01/28/don%e2%80%99t-drink-the-water/ Ideas, innovations and discoveries from the world of science Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:03:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/01/28/don%e2%80%99t-drink-the-water/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Lorri Watson Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:38:08 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=605#comment-595 I don't understand how people can continue to swim, bathe, or even go near the Ganges River. The people call it a holy place. Do the people not have a problem with the tanneries channeling wastewater into it? Or the 12 million gallons of raw sewage from the treatment plant in Kanpur for the past five or more years being dumped in it. Not to mention rotting bodies, I am not even going to talk about that. Have they not seen the consequences of this total unconcern for humanity long enough? I see nothing wrong with worship. But our higher power gives us sense enough not to immerse or swallow stagnant, contaminated water. I don't know about the Ganges being Holy, but you better pray long and hard if you decide to take a dip. I don’t understand how people can continue to swim, bathe, or even go near the Ganges River. The people call it a holy place. Do the people not have a problem with the tanneries channeling wastewater into it? Or the 12 million gallons of raw sewage from the treatment plant in Kanpur for the past five or more years being dumped in it. Not to mention rotting bodies, I am not even going to talk about that. Have they not seen the consequences of this total unconcern for humanity long enough? I see nothing wrong with worship. But our higher power gives us sense enough not to immerse or swallow stagnant, contaminated water. I don’t know about the Ganges being Holy, but you better pray long and hard if you decide to take a dip.

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