Mother Ganga

It is not a one time project. It is a life time project. As long as earth survives, Ganga flows. As long as Ganga flows, this project survives.

Rajiv Gandhi took it as a one time effort. That was a mistake.

So, there should be a life time commitment from the people of India for Mother Ganga. Not only people of India; but also from people of the entire world. Then take it as global initiative to maintain River Ganga.

Crores and crores of rupees had been invested; but it all had gone waste. It might have provided temporary relief; but not a permanent cure.

So, just allocating a huge budget cannot guarantee an effective result.

So, before investing any money and resources, you need to study with a fresh perspective.

When you go to a doctor for any health problems; the doctor doesn't start the surgery immediately; first the doctore studies and tries to understand the problem; before starting any treatment.

So, we need to study the problem first.
To study, we need data and information.

So, we need to collect data; data acquisition from various points along the path of the river.

Data Acquisitions have to happen from various points such as:

• Gangotri
• Rishikesh
• Haridwar
• Bithoor
• Kanpur
• Allahabad
• Varanasi
• Patna
• Calcutta

Data Acquisitions have to happen on real time.

These Data Acquisition Devices could collect information such as:

• Rate of flow of water
• Volume of flow
• contamination information
• chromium
• and other toxic contamination
• visual information via video camera

Nowadays, these devices are available in small packages; 

powered by solar & wind; 

self-powered and 

standalone.

These devices could communicate via Wi-Fi & 4G. These devices could transfer the accumulated data to a server in the Cloud.

For remote locations; these devices could collect data information and store it locally. 

Once in a day or in a week, someone could go there and download collected data from these devices and then upload to the cloud server.

Nowadays, drones are available. Once in a day, a drone could go around thee data acquisition centers and collect information.

So, scientists, environmentalists, political leaders and common people could have access to all these information on real time over web; and mobile.

So, we need to invest on real time data acquisition along the path of River Ganga.

With this investment, we may not have cleaned Mother Ganga a bit; but we are preparing the ground for life time treatment for Mother Ganga.

Once the data starts flowing on real time; many scientists and wonderful human beings from all around the world starts contributing their skills; wealth; time and other resources.

Then we could clearly see, which point the river Ganga is getting polluted more; who is responsible for this pollution and we could have them accountable for their cause.

Now, we cannot have anybody accountable for any thing.

Without understanding the current situation, whatever money you invest, may not be appreciated.

For instance, if you measure; there are 100 dirty plastic bags. Then you remove 60 of them; people could see the improvement. 

If you don't measure and provide them the current situation, even if you remove 90 of them; people will not appriciate your efforts; and people will point out those remaining dirty plastic bags.

So, real time data acquisition from various points along the path of River Ganga is the first step.

monitoring of river water

Post-acquisition data processing 

for the screening of transformation products of 

different organic contaminants. 

Two-year monitoring of river water using 

LC-ESI-QTOF-MS and GCxGC-EI-TOF-MS

This study describes a comprehensive strategy for detecting and elucidating the chemical structures of expected and unexpected transformation products (TPs) from chemicals found in river water and effluent wastewater samples, using liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometer (LC-ESI-QTOF-MS), with post-acquisition data processing and an automated search using an in-house database. 

The efficacy of the mass defect filtering (MDF) approach to screen metabolites from common biotransformation pathways was tested, and it was shown to be sufficiently sensitive and applicable for detecting metabolites in environmental samples. 

Four omeprazole metabolites and two venlafaxine metabolites were identified in river water samples. 

This paper reports the analytical results obtained during 2 years of monitoring, carried out at eight sampling points along the Henares River (Spain). 

Multiresidue monitoring, for targeted analysis, includes a group of 122 chemicals, amongst which are pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides and PAHs. 

For this purpose, two analytical methods were used based on direct injection with a LC-ESI-QTOF-MS system and stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) with bi-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with a time-of-flight spectrometer (GCxGC-EI-TOF-MS).

So, any work on Mother Ganga is worship. Let us begin the journey now.