恆河被嚴重污染，印度計劃撥款30億美元治理，可事實卻打臉…

Saving a river: Pollution in India"s holy Ganges makes it toxic

拯救河流：印度神聖的恆河因污染致毒

來源：路透社 翻譯：世界播

People watch as pyres burn at a cremation ground on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India April 7, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

2017年4月7日，印度瓦拉納西，人們在恆河岸邊看著火葬堆燃燒。路透社/丹麥Siddiqui

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Ganges river, holy to most Indians, flows from the western Himalayas down to the Bay of Bengal through crowded cities, industrial hubs and some of the most populated areas in the world.

新德里（路透社）——恆河是印度人的聖潔之河，它從西喜馬拉雅山流向孟加拉灣，流經擁擠的城市、工業中心和世界上一些人口最稠密的地區。

The river begins as pristine, clear waters in the icy heights of the tallest mountain range in the world. But pollution, untreated sewage and use by hundreds of millions of people transform parts of it into toxic sludge by the time it reaches the sea, about 2,525 kilometers downstream.

發源於世界上最高的山脈的冰層高地上，這條河是純凈的清澈的。但在其到達下游約2525公里處的海洋時，污染、未經處理的污水以及上億人使用的廢水，使這條河流的一部分變得有毒。

Personified by Hindus as the goddess Ganga, the river is the site of thousands of cremations and ash scatterings every day. The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a nearly $3 billion five-year plan to clean up the river by 2020, but Reuters found last year that only a tenth of the funds had been used in the first two years of the project.

這條河在印度人心中是恆河女神，但每天都有成千上萬的火葬在此舉行，骨灰在這飄散。印度總理納倫德拉·莫迪領導的印度教民族主義政府已經啟動了一項耗資近30億美元的五年計劃，計劃在2020年前清理這條河，但路透社去年發現，該項目的頭兩年只動用了十分之一的資金。

A Reuters team that investigated the state of the holy river has compiled data and photographs to portray its condition.

路透社的一個小組調查了聖河的狀況，收集了數據和照片來描述聖河的狀況。

The government maintains it is on track to clean up the river.

政府堅稱它正在清理這條河。

Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari said last month that the Ganges will be 70 percent to 80 percent clean within three months and 100 percent clean by March 2020. He did not give details on how the government had arrived at the figures and did not respond to requests for further comment.

水資源部長尼廷·加德卡里上個月表示，恆河將在三個月內完成70%到80%的清潔，到2020年3月將達到百分之百的清潔。他沒有詳細說明政府是如何得出這些數字的，也沒有回應進一步置評的請求。

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