Israel Offering to Help Clean Up India's Filthy Ganges River

The holy river streams from the Himalayas, passing through 29 Indian cities and picking up more contaminants in each.

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Israeli cleantech might yet come to the rescue of the sacred but polluted goddess river Ganges, an Israeli envoy told the Indian press Sunday. An Israeli delegation of water experts, from government and private enterprise, has been invited to visit India next week to meet with officials and presumably to gain a first-hand impression of the problem - which is vast.

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