Thames sets example for Ganges clean up
Source: Indo-Asian News Service | Date: FEBRUARY 17, 2002
India but perhaps the country's largest repository for sewage, faeces and dead bodies, has lessons to learn from river Thames of London.

How clean is Ganga, anyway
Source: Hindustan Times | Date: FEBRUARY 16, 2002
Tomorrow morning, after you finish your morning prayers with a sprinkling of holy Ganga water, take a look at this website. It claims that the water that you worship has a 'fecal coliform count' that is 9200 per cent above the level acceptable for human beings.

New effort to clean up Ganges
Source: BBC News | Date: FEBRUARY 16, 2002
A leading non-governmental organisation in India is planning to work with a London-based organisation in an effort to clean up the River Ganges.

Ganga can be as clean as the Thames
Source:The Times of India | Date: FEBRUARY 13, 2002
The best way to judge the state of a nation is to check out its rivers, says Mark Lloyd, director of Thames 21, a London-based NGO which has been involved in keeping the Thames clean. If that's true, the condition of the Yamuna and the Ganga would leave us sputtering about the state of our nation.

Karma, caste on Ganga ghats
Source:The Times of India | Date: FEBRUARY 11, 2002
Since the days of the house tax protest of 1810, when Benares rose as one against the predation of the colonial state, the city of Shiva has taken politics at least as seriously as spirituality.

Govt's environment data five years old
Source:The Times of India | Date: FEBRUARY 08, 2002
The Union environment ministry is going to battle with out-dated ammunition. As it prepares for the tenth Plan, due later this year, it is drawing on pollution-impact data dating back to 1996, 1995 and even earlier.

Ganga goes global with website
Source:The Times of India | Date: OCTOBER 27, 2001
Nation's first-ever river website 'Holy Ganga,' the lifeline of Indian culture, is all set to go global with the efforts of the Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF), a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) totally devoted to making the river free from pollution.

Har Har Gange
Source:The Times of India | Date: SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
One of the seven heroes of the planet clad in white, he looks like a saint. Sitting on the steps of Tulsi Ghat, Varanasi, with folded hands and closed eyes, he worships Mother Ganga. He is none other than Prof. Veer Bhadra Mishra, who has been rated as one of the seven heroes of the planet by 'Time' magazine.

Varanasi hero loses out to govt
Source:The Times of India | Date: AUGUST 31, 2001
Veer Bhadra Mishra, the Varanasi priest, engineer and activist chosen by Time magazine as one of the seven heroes of the planet in 1999, has lost out to the government - temporarily at least. The Union environment ministry has ruled against his proposal on sewage-trapping technology in Varanasi, preferring a more traditional UP Jal Nigam plan he has been opposing.

Website on the Ganga in October
Source:The Times of India | Date: AUGUST 30, 2001
The Ganga is all set to go global with the efforts of the Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF), a local non-governmental organisation (NGO).

UP govt stonewalls efforts to clean Ganga stretch
Source: THE STATESMAN, NEW DELHI | Date: April 21, 2001
Nominated by the Time magazine as "hero of the planet" for his pioneering efforts to clean the Ganga, Dr Veerbhadra Mishra is in a quandary - his plan for cleanup of the highly polluted stretch of the river in Varanasi "is being stonewalled" by the Uttar Pradesh Government.

The Ganges: Troubled waters
Source: BBC News | Date: 27 June, 2000
The BBC Hindi Service's Shiv Kant travelled down the Ganges from its source to the delta.

Clean Ganga, not Water
Source:The Times of India | Date: APRIL 13, 2000
Founder-president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation and the mahant of the Sankat Mochan Temple, Varanasi, Veer Bhadra Mishra heads the civil engineering department at Banaras Hindu University. His `Clean Ganga Campaign' to prevent further pollution of the Ganga won him international acclaim --he figures on the UNEP's global 500 roll of honour and Time magazine calls him one of the seven heroes of the planet. Recently in Udaipur to receive the Maharana Udai Singh award for protection of environment instituted by the Maharana Mewar Foundation, he spoke to Narayani Ganesh:

Bill Richardson to discuss Ganga pollution
Source: Rediff News | Date: October 21, 1999
United States Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will visit the holy city of Varanasi next week and discuss the problem of pollution in the Ganga with environmental activists and the Ganga Action Plan officials.

A modern saptarishi and a river's thousand names
Source: Rediff on Net | Date: July 20, 1999
The Ganga has one thousand names ( sahastranam) all meaning purity and cleanliness but unlike the past it enters the third millennium with only one name -- pollution.

Pollution of Rivers in India Reaches a Crisis
Source: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: October 29, 1997
Every day at dawn, the ancient bathing ghats of Varanasi are crowded with devotees preparing to bathe in what they call the sacred waters of the river Ganges.

Ganga
According to Hindu mythology, Ganga came down to earth due to the intense devotion of Bhagirath, the grandson of King Anshuman, who convinced Brahma to release the river. He led her to the sea, in the process purifying the souls of his 6000 great granduncles. This river valley is considered the cradle of Hindu mythology.