I present to you a rather old documentary. It was filmed in the 2000's or early 2010's. I wanted to see how its predictions and data would reflect reality today.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pH0fhLBr-Mg
Here are some interesting datapoints I found:
- The jeets toss dead babies and pregnant women whole in the Ganges as they believe they are pure and need no purification.
- The workers who prepare the corpses for burning ghoulishly descend upon the ashes to pick out any golden or silver teeth fillings
- India will become a water scarce nation by 2020 (By modern data they moved the post to 2025, but also say that by 2030 India will exceed water supply by a factor of two)
- When this doc was filmed the jeet was dumping approx. 1 million liters of sewage straight into the Ganges every second
Now this final datapoint peaked my interest so I checked if anything has changed since. Of course not.
By data from 2022, the jeet is flushing 72+ billion liters of sewage into the Ganges every day. And only less than 37% of it is processed. That means that the jeet is still shitting out near 1 million liters of sewage into the Ganges every second!
I did some quick math and this equivalates to 12.000 Great Pyramids of Giza worth of refuse getting dumped daily into the most "sacred" river in India. And only 4440 of these pyramids go through the actual sewers. These are mind boggling levels of open defection, and the data only covers a single river.