The Swatcha Ganga Campaign

The Sankat Mochan Foundation is a non profit organisation dedicated to cleaning the Ganges River. Since 1982, the Sankat Mochan Foundation has been campaigning to get the sewage out of the religous bathing areas of the Ganges River in Varanasi. The Government of India initiated the first stage of the Ganga Action Plan in 1984. Three sewage treatment plants and an electric crematorium were built, leading local people to believe that, at last, something practical had been achieved.
Unfortunately, the sewage treatment plants are not doing the job they were designed for. …