Luxury Cruise - Indian version
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Dead bodies and shit are probably the least harmful stuff they throw in that river.
No doubt they'll still bathe in it.
And they say the U.S. is the bad guy when it comes to the environment
Not the US, white people
They know it's literally shit creek and they STILL get in the boat?
They bathe in it
My respect to all environmental scientists in India.
Is it just me or does that jeet expert have a whiteface filter applied?
Hmm
I assume that's the runoff from their streets.
So no electrolytes?
😅
Since they shit on the streets as a normal thing? Yes that's a lot of it. But they also discharge sewage waste straight into the nearest river, which goes into the major rivers soon.
2 decades or so ago they launched a big effort to clean up the Ganges. Like this fellow said. But it stalled and since then the population has skyrocketed, concentrated in the big cities where they produce the most waste.
One problem with most of India is that while their "average" yearly rainfall looks good? It mostly falls in 3-4 months then is very dry for the rest of the year.
So the runoff during the Monsoons is relatively clean, by volume & anyhow. Then the rest of the time it looks like that: 80% untreated shit.
Indians like to shit on their own "sacred river"? Imagine how respectful they are of the customs of other nations & cultures. Hint: you have to imagine it since it doesn't exist. Like the square root of -1, eh?
I think I'm kind of serious when I say this, large number of indians and hindus need to be culled, wiped out and eradicated if people are serious about cleaning the environment. Anyone still preaching peaceful solution aren't serious people and they should never be allowed to make suggestions in the serious matters ever again.
I am honestly perplexed that they haven't done it to themselves already.
We were hoping for Saar Wars, but instead we got Pirates of the Persian Gulf.
Agree 100%
I recall a docco on the Ganges & the effort to clean it up. Around 20~ odd years back they launched a huge project to put waste treatment sites all up & down the river. They did, mostly, but then didn't follow up.
There was a brief time where the Ganges was "cleaner" but still bad. Then even by the time the docco was made it was rapidly getting worse again.
I was reminded of it because they spent a lot of time in Kanpur. The tanning industry is massive! And the waste is grotesque at best, deadly at worst. MOST of it goes straight into the river, no treatment at all. They tracked waste from one small tannery to prove this. The tannery people claimed they had no idea, they thought (they said) it went to the new waste treatment plant :/ The amount of waste that one small place produced was staggering. Rotten fat was the bulk of it, it apparently has a "unique odor" which is "unforgettable".
I remember Mike Rowe's "Dirty Jobs" episode where he visits a tannery in America. It probably was about the same size as the one in India, but produced a tiny fraction of the waste & that stuff was NOT pumped into the sewers but sent for treatment by truck, or to an incinerator. He said it was one of the worst jobs he'd experienced.
My first thought: WTF do Indians need tans fo-, oh wait, this is about leather.
Lolz! "Tanning booths" in India are like the "Suicide booths" in Futureama, eh? They'd only make a small dent in the 1.6 Billion though. They need more MAiDs there, like Canada has.
LITERALLY a river of shit
"The problem is worse than it was 30 years ago"
WOW REALLY??? YOU DON'T SAY??? MORE FACTS AT 11
Remember when the Seine was full of shit back in ... 2024?
https://www.newsweek.com/paris-olympics-seine-river-pollution-dirty-sewers-1932233
It is pretty funny that Europe's archaic 700-year-old sewers are still better than modern India.
Until we stop 4 billion lesser primates in India, africa, southeast asia, and china from using their rivers as trash pits and sewers, nothing we do in the west matters.
it's ok the river is making that shit clean
Fingers crossed.
Indians took ''holy shit'' to the next level in the Ganges.
One good summer and we got a sequel to The Great Stink. It's inevitable.