In 2018, 98.7% of Indians had access to the basic water and sanitation facilities. India faces challenges ranging from sourcing water for its megacities to its distribution network which is intermitte
In India, Delhi has the highest usage of household water purifiers/filters. Basic gravity water filter, electric reverse osmosis and ultraviolet filters visible. Standard 20 L bottled water visible.
Millions depend on the Ganga river
A street in Mathura overflowing with sewage and garbage in 2011
Picture of a wastewater stream
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The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The 2,525-kilometre-long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south
Water supply and sanitation in India
…that only 27% of India's wastewater was being treated, with the remainder flowing into rivers, canals, groundwater or the sea. For example, the sacred Ganges river is infested with diseases and in some places "the Ganges becomes black and septic. Corpses, of semi-cremated adults or enshrouded babies, drift…
The Himalayan headwaters of the Ganges River in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
Bhagirathi River at Gangotri.
Devprayag, confluence of Alaknanda (right) and Bhagirathi (left), and beginning of the Ganges.