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Ganges (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on the Ganges river, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on the Ganges, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for measured fecal coliform bacteria levels near Varanasi exceeding one hundred times the Indian government's official limit, and for the widely judged failure of the Ganga Action Plan cleanup initiative.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges
Source Typereference
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