Indian devotees converged on a river for a holy bath days after the tragic stampede that killed 30 individuals. Aerial ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing day of the Kumbh Mela festival (also known as Mahakumbh) in the northern ...

The River Wharfe was the first UK river to have an officially designated bathing site. The government's rejection of all but one application for bathing water status for English rivers is "very ...

While the pH levels of the river met the primary water quality criteria for outdoor bathing, the BOD levels at both upstream and downstream failed to comply with the standards for outdoor bathing.