1. What Makes Evidence Relevant?

2. Topic Sentence: The Hindu people refuse to acknowledge the pollution in the Ganges River. “People wash their hair, their clothes, even their mouths in the sacred river…’I’ll use this for drinking and cooking and get some more tonight,’ (…an elderly man…)says. ‘It’s absolutely clean. Of course it is, it’s Ganges water.” “The Ganges has become so polluted that it can no longer clean itself. It’s waters are now so unhealthy not only for drinking and bathing, but for farming as well.” “Devout Hindus believe that a dip in the river washes away their sins.” “The Ganges is India’s sacred river. In the Hindu religion, ‘Ganga’, as the river is called, it considered a goddess.”

3. Topic Sentence: The Hindu people refuse to acknowledge the pollution in the Ganges River. Evidence: “People wash their hair, their clothes, even their mouths in the sacred river…’I’ll use this for drinking and cooking and get some more tonight,’ (…an elderly man…)says. ‘It’s absolutely clean. Of course it is, it’s Ganges water.” People should take care of the sewage problem in India. This is important because the Ganges is polluted. Ganga, or the river goddess of the Ganges, is a central figure in the Hindu belief system. If the river can’t clean itself, that would be admitting that there is a problem with the goddess. People should stop using the river for religious reasons. There are a lot of animals in the Ganges. I wonder what it would be like to wash in the Ganges river?

4. Topic Sentence: The Hindu people refuse to acknowledge the pollution in the Ganges River. (Link) Even today with the massive pollution problem that the Ganges is facing, Evidence: “People wash their hair, their clothes, even their mouths in the sacred river…’I’ll use this for drinking and cooking and get some more tonight,’ (…an elderly man…)says. ‘It’s absolutely clean. Of course it is, it’s Ganges water.” (Frey, 2010). Analysis: Ganga, or the river goddess of the Ganges, is a central figure in the Hindu belief system. Because of this devout belief, people come from all over to use the sacred water and wash away their sins. If the Hindu population were to admit that the river can’t clean itself, that would be admitting that there is a problem with the goddess. This would lead to millions of people lacking a fresh water source and a religious icon.