A River Runs Through It "India is embarking on an expensive last-ditch attempt to restore the heavily polluted Ganges River basin, home to 400 million people," Dan Morrison writes in The New York Times. The cleanup will take decades and cost tens of billions of dollars. The World Bank, which has already ponied up $1 billion in loans and grants, classifies it as ""high" risk," Mr. Morrison writes. Despite the risk - "the dangers posed by corruption, incompetence and political parochialism" - the National Ganges River Basin Project is a great idea, "one that could improve the health of millions of people while also boosting India's economy," he writes. The project is "unprecedented in its complexity," he writes. Other dying rivers, including the Rhine and the Danube, "have seen pricey turnarounds, but experts say they were child's play compared with the challenge of restoring the Ganges," he writes.