Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?
by cholantesh on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:00AM
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Proper cremation can be expensive, so poor persons often take part in an ad hoc ceremony in which they may not properly burn the body before sending it down the river. This is in addition to infanticide and other unsavory reasons for disposing of bodies...
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Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?
by ocean3 on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:27AM
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People don't dump bodies in rivers where in live. As i said India is huge. The cultural practices vary from region to region.
Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?
by cholantesh on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:06AM
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Not where I'm from either (Chennai, though my dad is from Thanjavur), but in the area around the Gangetic plain, this might be a common practice, and it is deleterious to humans and the environment.
Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?
by pigpaws on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:59AM
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understood, however if someone upstream poisons their water supply, be it farm/agriculture, industrial runoff, etc.. it still effects you and your family downstream. If there is too much, everything starts to deteriorate.
Re:Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis?
by ocean3 on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:13AM
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Sure. People living there would be affected. But i don't know common those practices are. Might be just North India. I am from South. There are many difference between North and South states and within Southern states and districts.