Gangajal Nature Foundation's 3rd National Documentary and Photography Competition 2009
GREEN EARTH
The British Met office has said that 2010 year may be the world’s warmest year on record. Also said man-made climate change will be a factor and natural weather patterns would contribute less to the temperature than they did in 1998, the current warmest year on record. Half the year between 2010 and 2019 may be warmer than 1998.
The earth's climate is dynamic and always changing through a natural cycle. What the world is more worried about is that the changes that are occurring today have been speeded up because of man's activities. These changes are being studied by scientists all over the world who are finding evidence from tree rings, pollen samples, ice cores, and sea sediments. The causes of climate change can be divided into two categories - those that are due to natural causes and those that are created by man.
Gangajal Nature Foundation is organising an awareness Campaign along the route from Gangasagar in Bay of Bengal to Gangotri – the starting point (source) of the River Ganga. The aim of this ‘Awareness Campaign Drive’ is to create greater awareness among the people about the environment. This Awareness Campaign is called “Jan Jodo Ganga Yatra” . This Campaign is planned in the month of February - March 2010 and will consist of “Gangajal” photographic exhibition, documentary shows, talks by experts on environment and arrangement of “Cleanliness Workshops” in various pilgrimage places, cities along the river Ganga covering a distance of 2525 kilometers. It will also include collecting and collating of data on the detrimental effects of Ganga river pollution on lives of the people living along the route of river Ganga. Click here to read more...
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Gangajal Nature Foundation, Mumbai is a Non Government Organization (NGO) founded by Mr. Vijay N. Mudshingikar. Through the medium of Gangajal photo exhibition we are trying to spread awareness about water pollution. We are doing it for last six years. We are using Photographs of polluted Ganga and Documentary film based on these photographs as tools to spread awareness.
Though Saving Ganga is our most important project, our scope of activities are not limited with only Ganga. We are mainly a group of nature lovers and researchers trying to save environment by activities like awareness programs, cleaning camps etc.. Click here to read more...
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River Ganga is in really bad state. There's plenty of research is going on to study Ganga and effects of pollution on it. Our articles section is repository of such scholarly articles written by some of the authorities on this subject. Please click here to read these articles.
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The leather industry, besides being a major contributor to the Indian national economy, is unfortunately also one of the major polluters. The present article discusses the influence of the wastes on the physicochemical characteristics of the Ganga water and sediments. Two sampling sites have been chosen at Kanpur, the first before and the second after the point where tanneries are located. The same physicochemical parameters which have been determined in the wastes have been monitored at these two sites for two seasons. The results reveal that most parameters increase as the river traverses between these two points. The increase in values of parameters such as BOD, COD, Cl-, and total solids could be due to the domestic wastes just as much as to the tannery wastes. Phenols and sulfides, can also come from other sources, but their probability of coming from tanneries is higher. However, chromium is one parameter which can primarily be identified to originate from the tanneries. The speciation of the sediments for chromium reveals that the leakage of chromium into the Ganga is taking place at the second site. There is almost a tenfold increase in chromium at the second site as compared to the first. At the first site the surface chromium is primarily in the residual fraction while at the second site it is in the Fe–Mn oxide fractions. Click Here for more videos
Gangajal Documentary
This documentary is shorter version of documentary film showing The Ganges Water Pollution. This documentary is created by a NGO "Gangajal Nature Foundation, Mumbai". The purpose of this documentary is to create awareness with respect to the pollution of River Ganga.
As per WWF, The Ganges is one of the 10 endangered river. The Gangas is soul of the Indian Culture. It is having great Spiritual, Social, Economical and Historical significance.
This Documentary throws light on importance of The Ganges as well as current problems its facing. Click Here for more videos
Gangajal Nature Foundation is organising an awareness Campaign along the route from Gangasagar in Bay of Bengal to Gangotri – the starting point (source) of the River Ganga. The aim of this ‘Awareness Campaign Drive’ is to create greater awareness among the people about the environment. This Awareness Campaign is called “Jan Jodo Ganga Yatra” . This Campaign is planned in the month of February - March 2010 and will consist of “Gangajal” photographic exhibition, documentary shows, talks by experts on environment and arrangement of “Cleanliness Workshops” in various pilgrimage places, cities along the river Ganga covering a distance of 2525 kilometers. It will also include collecting and collating of data on the detrimental effects of Ganga river pollution on lives of the people living along the route of river Ganga. Click here to read more...
Gangajal Nature Foundation, Mumbai is a Non Government Organization (NGO) founded by Mr. Vijay N. Mudshingikar. Through the medium of Gangajal photo exhibition we are trying to spread awareness about water pollution. We are doing it for last six years. We are using Photographs of polluted Ganga and Documentary film based on these photographs as tools to spread awareness.