The answer is D. The Ganges is too polluted (bathing, burial, travel) to actually drink from. The Indians think of the Ganges of a religious river, therefore scattering the ashes of their dead ones and bathing the worshippers in the water.
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(Site 2) Scientists are so interested in the lake because the conditions could resemble those of ice covered oceans to exist on Jupiter's moon called Europa