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The river Ganga (the Ganges) is not only one of the largest rivers in India, but it is also revered by the Indians as its most pious and auspicious. The pollution of Ganga in the course of its flow through the Gangetic plain has been exponentially increasing in recent decades, turning the river into one of the most polluted of the world’s major rivers. The present work describes a 3-year assessment of the Ganga water quality at the town of its origin—Devprayag—and a town Km downstream: Hrishikesh. The findings indicate.
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Arjun, D.M., Pagadeeswar, N., Tabassum-Abbasi, Nandan, A., Abbasi, T., Abbasi, S.A. (2023). A Fuzzy Logic Index-Based Assessment of the Water Quality of River Ganga at the Place of Its Origin (Devprayag) and the Downstream Town of Hrishikesh. In: Siddiqui, N.A., Baxtiyarovich, A.S., Nandan, A., Mondal, P. (eds) Advances in Waste Management. AIR 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 301. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7506-6_13
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