Recent drying of the Ganga River is unprecedented in the last 1,300 years

 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424613122

Wow!! So much for the "sacred Gangas" - the Vedic Brahman tradition has dried up!!

Abrupt global warming Mother Nature Kali is taking over.

 The Ganga River has profound religious, cultural, and economic significance for millions living in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. The Ganga River has been facing drying trends; however, it remains unclear whether the recent drying is unprecedented. We examined the recent drying of the Ganga River using reconstructed streamflow for the past 1,300 y and found that the river basin has faced its worst droughts in the last few decades. The recent drying is well beyond the realm of last millennium climate variability, and most global climate models fail to capture it. Our findings highlight the need to represent the complex interactions among natural and anthropogenic factors in climate models, which can assist water management strategies under climate warming.

 1,300 y (700–2012 C.E.) from instrumental data, paleohydrological records, and hydrological modeling, we show that drying from 1991 to 2020 is unmatched in the past millennium. Streamflow decline since the 1990s, driven by frequent and prolonged droughts, is 76% more intense than the 16th-century drought—the closest historical analogue.