Ganga drying up in summers due to groundwater depletion: Study

Ganga, the 2600-km-long trans-boundary river of Asia, has witnessed &quot;unprecedented low levels of water in several lower reaches&quot; in the last few summer seasons.<br />''<br />''This is as per a study was undertaken by a professor of IIT-Kharagpur. Abhijit Mukherjee, associate professor of Geology in IIT-Kharapur, along with researchers Soumendra Nath Bhanja from Canada and Yoshihide Wada from IIASA Austria, found out that the drying of the river in the recent years d...