India's great river is awash in filth
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Among believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin. Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it "Ganga Ma" &#151; Mother Ganges &#151; and they worship it with a blinding intensity.
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Public health officials warn survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami face a grave danger, death and disease caused by filthy drinking water.
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The murky green Dasha River has been dirty for decades, polluted by coal mines and steel mills that make it fit only for watering livestock and crops downstream.
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Manual labourer Gulzar Singh is  haunted by the day he exhumed baby foetuses from a pit outside  an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India's  fight against female feticide.
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By Anthony Deutsch Associated Press  JAKARTA, Indonesia -- In a low-lying riverside district of the capital, dead chickens floated in the same filthy floodwaters that women used to bathe children and wash clothes.
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Â· Victim murdered in India and body thrown in river Â· Mother-in-law ordered to serve minimum 20 years
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More than 100 people have died in flash floods in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Assam over the past few days. The worst affected area is the district of Goalpara where at least 80 villagers are still missing, officials say.
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Ewww... someone is marketing toilet water!
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Himesh Reshammiya's visit to Ajmer dargah wearing a burkha creates a furore.
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Chandrasekhar Yeleti's latest, Okkadunnadu, is marred by too much blood and gore.
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It looks like a clump of soiled sheep's wool, a cottony green or white mass that's turning up on rocks and river bottoms, snarling waterways.
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VARANASI, India -- With her eyes sealed, Ramedi cupped the murky water of the Ganges River in her hands, lifted them toward the sun, and prayed for her husband, her 15 grandchildren and her bad hip. She, like India's other 800 million Hindus, has absolute faith that the river she calls Ganga Ma c...
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There are shocked queries about why the Water director Deepa
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It looks like a clump of soiled sheep's wool, a cottony green or white mass that's turning up on rocks and river bottoms, snarling waterways. Already a scourge in New Zealand and parts of the American South and West, the aquatic algae called "rock snot" is creeping into New England, where it is turning up in pristine rivers and alarming fishermen and wildlife biologists.
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The bodies of a group of alleged thieves who were lynched by villagers in India last week are found in a river.
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In a cruel irony, survivors of the tsunami in South Asia whose lives were devastated by water, now need fresh water to help stave off the threat of disease.
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PATTRAN, India  - Manual labourer Gulzar Singh is   haunted by the day he exhumed baby foetuses from a pit outside   an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India's   fight against female feticide.