Reuters found last year that only a tenth of the funds had been used in the first two years of the project ... river, committed nearly $3 billion of funds to a five-year clean-up of the Ganges ...

“I don’t think we’re ever going to clean up the oceans by tackling one river at a time. It needs to go hand in hand with policy changes and behavior changes as well.” The Ganges is ...

The dark ribbon curls down a dirt embankment and flows into the Ganges River ... Rakesh Jaiswal has waged a lonely battle to clean up the river for almost 15 years. He was born in Mirzapur ...

The world record for a volunteer river clean-up has been smashed by 998 with 1,327 people taking part. The previous record stood at 329 people and was set on the River Ganges, in India ...