According to the study, ‘Assessment of Water Quality and Sediment To Understand Special Properties of River Ganga,’ Ganga river water contains a significantly higher proportion of organisms with antibacterial properties.
About:
Name of Study: Assessment of Water Quality and Sediment To Understand Special Properties of River Ganga.
Bodies involved: The study was commissioned by the Union Water Resources Ministry and was conducted by the Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI), a CSIR lab.
Objective of study: To probe the “unique properties” of the Ganga (About 200 years ago British colonial scientists suggested that the Ganga may contain unique microbial life, which makes it relatively more resilient to putrefaction).
Findings of the study:
Ganga river water — particularly in its upper Himalayan stretches — contains a significantly higher proportion of organisms with antibacterial properties as compared to other Indian rivers.
In the river Ganga, the bacteriophages were detected to be approximately 3 times more in proportion than bacterial isolates.
Significance: The super-phage isolated from Ganga and decoded for its lysine gene and cloned to produce lysine protein at IIT Roorkee holds great potential as an antibacterial pharmaceutical.
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