Pollution of the Ganges (20 pics)

I think #18 sends the message home best. You shouldnt be coming into contact with water like that. Your religion will kill you.

I dont think it is religion, just because you were born human doesnt mean that you can afford not to live as an animal,most of these people dont have better life than the dogs shown here...

11 sums it all up.

#11 Is that a human corpse?

radical_ed,
yep

candysack,
It is the ganges, which is sacred to hinduism. Meaning it is good faith to drink/bathe in that water. Also people get buried in the water. But we all know you shouldnt come in contact with water with dead corpses.

Ive heard stories of friends there who wanted to go into the water when a dead body floated by. Also sewage and other nasty things were present.

I am not trying to attack a religion, but this one part of it actually kills people. Its like the rivers in cities in the middle ages in Europe. We learned that dirty water killed thousands (if not millions).

Oh, the pestillence. Now I understand why India is the only country that still has alot of diseases that all the other countries eradicated them.

OMG! That holy water going to kill them

animals

When they treat their holy river like that ...

And getting worse by the minute. Sad.

3 rd world.

I feel sorry for the animals.

If this cloaca is a holy place, imagine what happens elsewhere.