Iron rules of health - 10

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Dear Todd

 

Ganges is a mystery.

 

The minerals from the glacier and antiseptic properties make Ganges

water valuable. It is true that near Varanasi, water is very much

polluted, but efforts put in by sewage treatment plants, and turtles

have reduced the pollution and pathogens significantly.

 

Please visit:

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1992/12/1992-12-02.shtml

 

http://www.sivananda.dls.org.za/Ganga.htm

 

Despite collecting polluted water, the pathogens die in few hours due

to certain radioactive compounds (radio nuclides) in Ganges water.

This was the study of CSIR scientists, published in Indian newspapers

approximately 15 years ago, as per the memeory only, since newpaper

clippings one does not maintain for years.

 

Ganges water, when kept in a bottle, never goes bad like some other

water does. The author has such a bottle in house and tested the

truth in laboratory. New York times report article:

 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?

sec=travel&res=9505EEDB1F3DF935A1575AC0A96F958260

 

And one can go to Rmaeswaram temple, where one can see Ganges water

in big copper pots, pure and without any pathogens, since copper pot

itself kills many pathogens. This water is offered to devotees to

sprinkle on Lord Siva lingam.

 

"I saw a programme some years back where a scientist who dealt with

Thames water ran a load of tests on the Ganges water flowing through

Varanasi & found it to be remarkably pure & clean. Even that far

downstream from the Himalayas the natural minerals & siltation acted

as natural purification. I would rather drink that than the

chlorinated cocktail of chemicals that comes out of the tap here.

Just don`t look too closely at stuff floating by while you`re

drinking it .."

http://forums.theargus.co.uk/post.asp?

method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=145402&TOPIC_ID=3788&FORUM_ID=50

 

Hope this satisfies.

 

dr bhate

 

ayurveda, Todd Caldecott <todd

wrote:

> regarding the Ganga, i have a hard time believing that the

pathogens

> dissipate on their own, but if you have any additional evidence of

> this i would be interested to see it

>

> by any measure the most sacred of rivers has become an industrial

and

> biological hazard, at least down river from the headwaters

> on the day i rafted down the Ganga, i saw raw sewage and effluent

> pouring into it,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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