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Why might locals and pilgrims continue to bathe in and drink water from the Ganges river even though it is polluted

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They continue to bathe in or even drink the Ganges because there confident in the healing powers of the divine river, they believe nothing could compromise the purity of their goddess. For them, Mother Ganges exists to wash away the impurities and pollution of earth and thus can cleanse herself.

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