India Aims $1 Billion at Sacred but Filthy Ganges

June 14, 2011
By Nida Najar
New York Times

NEW DELHI — Indian officials signed an agreement with the World Bank on Tuesday to use a $1 billion loan to finance the first major new effort in more than 20 years to cleanse the revered Ganges, one of the world’s dirtiest rivers.

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