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Q: What were the causes and effects of pollution on the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers?
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What are the negative effects of pollution of the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers?

it has a big affect of the agriculture and harvests and if it reaches the human water supply it could have serious consequences.


How is pollution affecting other rivers in South Asia besides the ganges?

Pollution has affected the Ganges and the Yangtze rivers in many different ways. - The Ganges river is known to Hindus as a sacred river, so they wash their clothes in the river, take a bath there, put dead cows in (because cows are sacred to Hindus), put dead bodies in, and put their sewage and waste in. - The Yangtze river is full of chemical waste, trash, and sewage. It is very polluted.


Is ganges river big enough to absorb all the pollution?

It is one of the most polluted rivers in the world


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