NOUN
- an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus
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- Bangladesh is suffering from diversion of Ganges River water and increased salinization. Brian Fagan: John Wesley Powell Was Right
- He also pointed out the curious fact that all the drainage from Mount Everest, north, south, east and west, eventually finds its way south, that from the north and east passing through the main Himalayan chain, to the Ganges river, and so to the Bay of Bengal, even though the Brahmaputra river is only about 100 miles to the north. The Mount Everest Expedition
- SusuThe susu, Platanista gangetica spp., lives in the Indus and Ganges river systems. Archive 2006-12-01
- I was born and raised in Kanpur, which is located right on the Ganges River. NYT > Home Page
- While chaos and economic collapse continues to engulf the Indian subcontinent (moreso from the Chinese damming of the headwaters of the Indus, Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers in their insatiable thirst for energy than from any direct external conflict), our lives west of the RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
- This was my fourth trip in three decades to Benares (a.k.a. Varanasi), the holy city where the Varuna and the sacred Ganges Rivers join, gaining spiritual momentum as their currents rush to meet their destiny in the Bay of Bengal. Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India