Chasing Rivers, Part 2: The Ganges | Nat Geo Live

Pete McBride takes a photographic and scientific journey along India's sacred waterway, the Ganges, which is revered as a god but struggles with a detrimental pollution problem.

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[sokbok]

Quarantined in Rishikesh today. Watching Ma Ganga flow from a window ledge. In the morning light the emerald green mixes with the pink sun, twirling in vortexes. Thanks for the great video. Lets all make mental offerings to her, not put plastic floating candles into her.

[sknmrowley]

India is so interesting from a distance. It seems almost like the center of the old world.

[rijusingh]

22:58 All the water systems should be sacred because they all are scarce... Well said.👏

[vinnivasu]

I'm from Malaysia and I just visited ganges on September 2022, super clean. It's very unlike the ganges shown in this documentary. I even went to the Kasi Viswanathan temple, it's Soo beautiful. I felt blessed to be there. Wish to go there again.

[organisedconfusion]

This river could have been the most beautiful river in the world but see what we did to it.😩

[hinduhistory]

Largely sympathetic, unbiased video. People blaming Pete MacBride of being biased are themselves wrong. True, Hinduphobia exists but this one was not.

[layladylay]

I watched parts 1 and 2 - and want to thank you Mr. Pete McBride - for doing the footwork and intense research to bring appreciation and closeness to both our ecology and human race. You are great and I really enjoyed this documentary. If I were a wealthy person - I would donate to this cause - but sees being that I am not - I can only hope that it will effect others that are and able - as it did myself.

[ekamsat]

Wonderful video. It is worth remembering that the Ganga river has also been - mainly through agriculture and trade - one of the key reasons that India has been among the materially wealthiest countries in the world over the past 3000 years. Patna (Pataliputra) was the capital of the glorious Mauryan and Gupta empires that wowed the ancient Greeks. Later, Bengal became the wealthiest region in the world during the Mughal times (as noted by the historian William Dalrymple). All thanks to the resources of Ganga.

[jeanneamato]

We always hurt the ones we love but I believe Mother Ganga will again be pure.

[Aastha-smqp]

So times I fell so proud to be Hindu 😌 just can't express how blessed I fell

[praveenX]

Very nice video, well researched well photographed and created....every Indian must watch this.
I am indian, grown in North India and can see things of Video everyday close to Ganga.
River Yamuna, a tributary of Ganga, is just used to drain the waste of factory and city in its bank, could be Delhi or Agra, it is a same story.
PM Modi is working towards cleaning it, not sure how much he can succeed, as Hindu beliefs are major factor in Ganga's pollution.

Note: Video is about Ganga, don't worry if fact about Cricket is wrong. You should appreciate the research of presenter/Nat Geo of Hindu believes. His effort to collect video and photographs form Kanpur leather factory or Agra or remote part  of Himalaya.  

[whaleshrimp]

I used to work as a whitewater jet boat captain on the upper Ganges River up stream from Rishikesh 20 something years ago. More than once we came across guys dynamite fishing! Sort of making a Bang Lasi of the holly river. I am one of those people who found great adventure in India and do love the place but pollution is pollution and the river is a mess below Rishikesh. With the ever increasing population outstripping everything and replacing it with garbage, nothing is actually going to get better. You young people get your butts in gear, go see and live whats left before it's gone!

[sumitvaidd]

appreciated sir thank you for giving your precious time and for giving us more knowledge

[jenniferscarini-ockers]

Amazing sights. Amazing sounds. I hope they clean their amazing river system. Water is life.

[prabhjotkaurjossan]

Yeah ganga is quite polluted river... I think people should take steps at least not to pollute it if they can't clean it...

[maniprabu]

Great and truthful presentation. First we Indians should have courage to accept the fact. He is not defying Hindu religion nor India. Whatever he mentioned is a hard hitting truth. He mentioned cricket as a national game in the context that it is being played widely in the country. All Indians kindly accept the fact and try to contribute cleaning the river in some way. I think preventing water resources is more sacred and important than preventing religion. I think without religion human can live (we did during ancient times) but not without water and ecosystem👍👍

[micedutainmentzone]

Incredible India!!! They have a lot to learn.

[ranitdey]

Being an Indian and seeing the harsh reality is really painful. Hoping someday somehow Ma Ganga be a real goddess in every aspects.

[micedutainmentzone]

Incredible India!!! They have a lot to learn.

[krise]

wow expect more such videos with more details and much powerful on India