Gangotri Glacier (Source Of The Ganges) Melting Faster Every Year - Now 3X Rate Measured In 1935

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The Gangotri glacier is shrinking - faster than ever before, faster every year. Glaciers throughout the world are in melt mode. Considered as the thermometer of global warming, world's best known ice masses are fast disappearing. And India's very own Gangotri glacier is one of them.

Studies conducted by WWF, available exclusively with CNN-IBN reveal that the Gangotri glacier is receding at an alarming average rate of 23 meters every year. Gangotri dham - a temple - is a pilgrim site for most Hindus in India. Devotees believe that hundreds of years ago, Ganga originated from this point, which is why the temple was built in the lap of the Himalayas. However, now things have changed.

THE GREAT MELTDOWN

*1935: The Gangotri was melting by seven meters per year

*1990: The meltdown had increased to 18 meters

*2006: Key Himalayan glaciers have shrunk by almost 21 pc

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Scientists have rung the alarm bell. With the 27km long Gangotri glacier shrinking, there is now less water downstream to dissolve the chemical wastes of over a 100 industries that pour into the river. With less water, the density of pollutants in the Ganga keeps increasing, making multicrore projects like the Ganga Action Plan, totally ineffective.

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http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-gangotri-glacier-is-shrinking/26587-3.html