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Tohoku University Launches Joint Research on Ganges River Cleanup

A research center at Tohoku University will collaborate to test Japanese accelerator technology for addressing the pollution of the Ganges River in India.

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6 months ago

November 2, 2023

The Sankei Shimbun

The banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, northern India, 2015 (Kyodo)

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The Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH) at Tohoku University in Sendai is planning a joint research project with India to clean up the Ganges River, Sankei Shimbun learned on September 28.

The Ganges, the longest river in India and a major water source for the country, has become increasingly polluted alongside rapid economic growth. Research will focus on applications of Japanese accelerator technology.

Tohoku University research — *People bathing in the Ganges River, Varanasi, northern India, 2018 (Kyodo)*

The project will experiment with irradiating high-energy electron beams from an accelerator onto contaminated wastewater flowing into the river to decompose bacteria and harmful substances.

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