Factors Leading to Disposal of Toxic and Hazardous Sacred Waste and Its Effect on Urban River Contamination: Case of Adi Ganga, Kolkata, India

Chakrabarty, Srijita

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“…On the other hand, Sharma and Behera (2022) suggest that mass gatherings and cattle bathing should be restricted in the river. Between these two suggestions, Chakrabarty (2020) recommends a material culture change where idols and religious items are made with sustainable materials to limit pollution inputs. Another policy option for mass bathing is to designate certain locations for religious activities so that filtration techniques can be used in those designated areas along with enhanced education to teach swimmers how to prevent pollution (Dimri et al, 2021) while state‐actors may want to track plastic pollution using global positioning system (GPS) units to see where it is most problematic (Duncan et al, 2020).…”

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“…This water, as it were, is more likely to be contaminated with arsenic than traditional drinking water sources such as rainwater and dug wells which are once again being promoted for human consumption (Acharyya et al, 1999;Chakraborti et al, 2018;Rahman et al, 2009). Though arsenic pollution is generally a natural phenomenon, its plaguing of the population throughout the Ganges Basin can be tied to water quality issues and a lack of developed water infrastructure at the surface (Chakraborti et al, 2017). Given all of these noted challenges, it is not at all surprising that the Ganges pollution problems have been a topic of many academic reviews over the past few decades.…”

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Resolving the Ganges pollution paradox: A policy‐centric systematic review

Sigdel

Carlton

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2023

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Despite the fact that it is one of the most sacred and holy rivers in the world, the Ganges River is paradoxically among the most polluted. Over the past decade, researchers have described various mechanisms and actions for improving the pollution problem within the Ganges watershed. The aim of this policy-centric systematic review is to summarize these recommendations to make them more accessible for concerned citizen groups and planners while also critically appraising their findings. Using the Reporting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES) framework, our findings indicate that there are a wide range of potential solutions for mitigating pollution in the river system that originate from 37 peer-reviewed sources that encompass field studies, modeling analyses, and review articles. While we find that there are many actionable and thoughtprovoking recommendations for improving water quality and pollution mitigation given by authors studying the Ganges, there are also areas for improvement. Notably, there is a heavy focus on state-centric planning in the basin with only a few examples of policies that have been tailored toward encouraging communitybased solutions. This lack of community-based planning may relate to the fact that there is also a missing social dimension to policy recommendations in the Ganges watershed, where most of the articles that we reviewed were published in natural science journals and were not interdisciplinary in nature. Better reporting standards for recommendations arising from reviews and a greater focus on the interrelations between different components of the Ganges system may also yield novel and more trustworthy policy findings for practitioners.

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Resolving the Ganges pollution paradox: A policy‐centric systematic review

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Carlton

Gautam³

2023

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“…Parliaments depute scientific committees to advise governments on specific matters (Bundi, 2018a), but how scientific publications shape the perspectives of law-policymakers is difficult to measure (Sundqvist et al, 2015). The PQs show that the influence of scientific research on the attention of the law-policymakers is limited to politically-or culturally-sensitive topics, such as the impacts of sacred wastes on river water quality (Chakrabarty, 2020). In contrast, the expected decrease in water resources in India due to global environmental changes (e.g.…”

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Identifying evolving priorities in national river governance from Parliamentary Questions

2022

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Rivers and their surrounding land provide resources and services that result in trade-offs requiring legislative and institutional interventions, for which the perspectives of law-policymakers and their societal values and political expediencies play a major role in decision-making. This study critically evaluates the evolving land–river governance in large democratically elected governments with complex developmental priorities and how law-policymakers’ recognition of emerging issues of river management influences common pool environmental resources governance. We selected an emerging economy – India – and analysed Parliamentary Questions (PQs) between 1999 and 2020 using a mixed method approach. Conflicting priorities over economic development, pollution management, socio-cultural values and inter-state–centre issues shape the evolving priorities of land–river governance. A declining focus on large-scale dams coupled with increasing attention on inter-basin water transfers, river conservation and pollution abatement, demonstrates an evolution away from the earlier narrow view of rivers for irrigation and hydropower. Our analysis demonstrates how the priorities of law-policymakers and political expedience play a critical role in river governance and thereby provide important insights into common pool environmental resources governance for sustainable development while also identifying important knowledge gaps and suggesting scopes for interdisciplinary studies.

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Poluição hídrica e seu potencial genotóxico: Uma análise da bacia do rio Doce após o rompimento da barragem de Fundão

Souza

Oliveira

Thomé

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Objetivos: Analisar evidências científicas existentes que descrevam os efeitos genotóxicos, mutagênicos ou citotóxicos associados a amostras coletadas na bacia do rio Doce, após o rompimento da barragem. E analisar a taxa de mortalidade por câncer (MC) entre a população de Mariana, Governador Valadares (GV) e Ipatinga, em Minas Gerais, e Colatina e Linhares, no Espírito Santo, cidades relacionadas com o rio Doce. Métodos: Foram utilizadas cinco bases de dados: PubMed, SciELO, Science Direct, Scopus e Google Acadêmico, os descritores: “Dam”, “Fundao”, “Mariana”, “genotoxic” e operador booleno “AND”, selecionando estudos que descreviam os efeitos tóxicos de amostras coletadas no rio Doce. Além disso foram coletados dados de MC no “Atlas de Mortalidade On-Line” do INCA, para os períodos de 2013-2015 e 2016-2018, notificados nas cidades estudadas. Resultados: Selecionou-se 4 estudos acerca dos efeitos genotóxicos. As taxas de MC obtidas por 100.000 habitantes nas cidades mencionadas e períodos definidos acima, foram observados aumentos em GV, Ipatinga, Colatina e Linhares, mas redução em Mariana. Conclusão: Sugere-se que as amostras analisadas possuem potencial genotóxico possivelmente associados à poluição por rejeitos de mineração. Observou-se que nas cidades abastecidas hidricamente pelo rio Doce, ou com relação com pesqueira, a MC aumentou após o desabamento, sugerindo uma relação entre a mortalidade por câncer e o abastecimento hídrico proveniente do rio Doce. No entanto, são necessários mais estudos para que se possa confirmar essa relação.

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Factors Leading to Disposal of Toxic and Hazardous Sacred Waste and Its Effect on Urban River Contamination: Case of Adi Ganga, Kolkata, India

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Resolving the Ganges pollution paradox: A policy‐centric systematic review

Resolving the Ganges pollution paradox: A policy‐centric systematic review

Identifying evolving priorities in national river governance from Parliamentary Questions

Poluição hídrica e seu potencial genotóxico: Uma análise da bacia do rio Doce após o rompimento da barragem de Fundão

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