印度郵局開始全國快遞恆河聖水?

India's national postal service is to deliver holy water from the River Ganges through the mail.

據悉，印度國家郵政服務於近日開始正式提供恆河的聖水快遞業務。

The water, known as Gangajal, will be bottled at two spots along the river - its source at Gangotri and the popular pilgrim town of Rishikesh - and sold in all post offices across the country, the Zee News website reports.

據印度Zee新聞網報道，這些被稱爲“Gangajal”的聖水，將在恆河的兩個地點灌裝：一個是恆河的發源地甘戈特里，二是恆河邊的聖城瑞詩凱詩。該聖水將在全國所有郵局出售。

Customers can also choose to have it delivered straight to their front doors. Government-run India Post says people can place orders for the water online. Those who opt for bottles from Rishikesh will pay 15 rupees ($0.22) for 200ml, while Gangotri's water is on sale at 25 rupees for the same size.

顧客也可以選擇將恆河水直接快遞到家門口。據印度國營郵局表示，人們可以在網上下訂單。一瓶200毫升的瑞詩凱詩恆河水售價爲15盧比（0.22美元）；而同樣200毫升的甘戈特里恆河水則售價25盧比。

The river is scared to Hindus who worship it as "Mother Ganges", but it has also become badly polluted with industrial waste, sewage and dead bodies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a huge clean-up operation, but India's environment watchdog said in January that little had changed so far.

恆河是印度的母親河，被印度人頂禮膜拜。然而，由於工業垃圾、城市污水以及死屍的大量氾濫，恆河已經被嚴重污染。印度總理莫迪上任後發起了一項“大清理運動”，不過據環境部門今年1月份透露，迄今爲止效果甚微。

Small businesses operating close to the river point out they've been bottling and selling its water locally for years, but admit that the post office's plan is enormous by comparison.

靠近恆河邊的一些小作坊表示，他們已經灌裝、出售恆河水多年了，不過，相比之下，郵局的這個計劃是頗具野心的。

Businessman Subrata Khan says that initially his company filtered the water to make it "crystal clear", but that led to a dip in sales. "We understood that people were failing to relate with clean Gangajal," he tells The Times of India website. "So we stopped filtering it and it worked wonders."

商人蘇布拉塔·可汗透露，最初，他的公司將恆河水過濾，使其看起來“清澈透明”，但是銷量卻開始下滑。他在接收《印度時報》採訪時表示：“我們意識到，當地人對清澈的恆河水並不買賬，所以我們停止了過濾，原生態的恆河水反而大受歡迎。”