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“India Wants To Use Flesh Eating Turtles To Rid The Ganges Of Bodies (HBO)”
“India Wants To Use Flesh Eating Turtles To Rid The Ganges Of Decomposing Bodies (HBO)”
India’s Ganges river is the main source of water for half a billion people. It’s also holy to the country’s almost 1 billion Hindus, who bathe in the river to be cleansed of their sins and believe that if a body is cremated and released into the water at Varanasi it can escape the cycle of reincarnation.
But the river’s cleansing abilities are limited by the fact that the Ganges is one of the world’s most polluted waterways: A billion gallons of raw sewage and industrial waste currently pour into it every day. Continue reading →
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