River Ganges in Rishikesh |
For long those living in the shadows of Himalayas have heard and experienced that harmful microbes do not survive in the water of Ma Ganga or River Ganges and that water brought from the Ganges and stored at home does not spoil. This was even more true in earlier times when there were fewer dams and pollution on the river to change its quality in drastic ways.
Could there be a scientific reason for that? The possible
scientific reason is that some of the dissolved minerals in this water are
silver (perhaps also copper). It would exist in the ores that lie in it path in
the Himalayas and silver even in very
microscopic quantities does that as proven by recent scientific studies. The principle is employed in some municipal towns in Mexico of ridding municipal supply of dangerous bacteria. See this note in a companion blog on silver and these studies,
In some places spring water from deep mountain sources including a hot
spring at Badrinath is a part of the river water. if such underground
streams pass through deep mountain areas containing silver seams the
amount of silver in the water can easily be significant for killing
microbes in the water if any. Mines and deposits of copper, gold and silver deposits have
existed in the Himalayas. See for example,
Truly the wonders of nature and mother earth are endless and
it is time humans learned to respect and enhance that rather than defile
Jai Ma Ganga
Note: There is an older article in this blog with suggestions for cleaning of River Ganga here
http://steamcenter.blogspot.in/2014/10/cleaning-ganges.html
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http://steamcenter.blogspot.in/2014/10/cleaning-ganges.html
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganges_River_at_Rishikesh.jpg,
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