{"id":17413,"date":"2016-09-16T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T06:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquaterra.in\/?p=17413"},"modified":"2020-01-14T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T13:48:38","slug":"hitting-the-wall-ganga-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquaterra.in\/hitting-the-wall-ganga-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Wall: Ganga River"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/aquaterra.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/American-Whitewater-Ganga-River.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">American-Whitewater-Ganga-River<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popularly referred to as the national river of India, the Ganges takes its name from the Gangotri Glacier where it originates in the western Himalaya. Draining a staggering 1,000,000 km2 basin, the Ganges is unquestionably the largestriver on the Indian subcontinent. 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