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weekend. It has been found out the average income of people around

the riverside area ranges from 7,000 – to 40,000. The water color of
the river has turned dark black due to excessive inlet of sewage and
wastewater. In some places, there is a malodour. The water in this
river in certain areas contains chemicals which extremely dangerous

for human health and its nearby fauna.

List of Recreational Activities
2 to 4 964

4 to 6 216
6 to 8 57
More then 10 33

Table No.4.1 : List of Recreational Activities

Ganga and Hooghly River

The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia that flows through India
and Bangladesh. The 2,525 km river rises in the western Himalayas
in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south -east through the

Gangetic plain of North India, receiving Yamuna ,the right-bank
tributary, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and
several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of
its flow, modifying the majority mechanisms.

The majority of the cities rely upon semi-confined or confined
aquifers that depend upon river water and underground water for
most of their water supply. Disposal of most of their liquid effluents
and solid residues to the rivers and ground. There has also been an
inevitable rise in waste production. Drainage of surface water has been

disrupted as the small low-lying channels and streams have been filled
with municipal waste. The total water potential of the Ganga basin

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