More Than Half of India’s Rivers Too Polluted to Drink
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Raw sewage and industrial waste rendered water in more than half of India’s 445 rivers unfit for drinking, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.
The report compared pollution levels from 1995 to 2011 including the rivers as well as 154 lakes and 78 ponds in the second-most populous nation. Water from at least a quarter of the rivers surveyed can’t even be used for bathing, it said.