(a) Name any five sources of water (other than rivers)
(b) Describe how the water of the river Ganga has been highly polluted.

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(a) The sources of water other than rivers are rains, oceans, lakes, glaciers and wells.

(b) The water of river Ganga has been polluted by various human activities like bathing, washing of clothes, immersion of ashes of dead bodies and unburnt corpses in the river. The untreated sewage and industrial waste are also discarded in the river. Chemical effluents from the industries are also discharged in it. More than a hundred towns and cities lie along its way, which discharge their waste in it. This has harmed the aquatic life of this river.

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Given are a few practices associated with ganga river that people do generally. Pick out those that pollute the ganga river.

1) Industries dump there chemical waste in ganga

2) We use river for transportation

3) Washer men use ganga water to wash clothes on the river banks

4) We build turbine on the flowing water of river ganga to generate electricity

5) After cremation ashes of dead bodies and the unburnt bodies are immersed in the ganga river.

6) Use of river water for irrigation.

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