Did You know that every day, thousands of Hindus bathe, clean their clothes, and wash their hair in the now polluted Ganges River in India? This was because Hindus would say that the water was sacred because Ganges water was supposed to wash away their sins. The water stayed remarkably clean because of a bacteria eating virus inside the Ganges called bacteriophages. Unfortunately, around the 1980’s the Ganges river started to get polluted because from objects such as dead bodies, sewage, and cancer causing chemicals and the river was not able to clean itself. In 1920 a scientist and water engineer named Dr. Veer Bhadra Mishra realized this problem and wanted to fix it. He then created multiple foundations to help clean the Ganges. Almost every
