Visitors fill bottles of the cloudy sacred water from the Pushkar Ghat.

A signboard at Pushkar Ghat lists rules for visitors, including avoiding soap, shampoo and washing clothes in the Godavari and disposing of waste in dustbins.

Clothes, flowers and other waste from bathing and religious rituals are gathered after being cleared from the ghat steps for collection.

Waste gathered near the steps and floating in the water at Pushkar Ghat.

Visitors bathe in the Godavari, and a sanitation worker cleans the steps at Pushkar Ghat in Rajamahendravaram.

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