After several days of receding trend, the water level of Ganga river which started rising again a day ago, continued the same trend on Friday though the river was recorded steady at upstream both at Phaphamau and Sangam (confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and invisible Saraswati) in Prayagraj.
According to the report of Middle Ganga Division-III of Central Water Commission (CWC), the water level of Ganga was recorded rising in Varanasi at 8 am and was rising at a speed of one centimetre per hour. It was recorded at 64.96 metres, far below the warning level of 70.262 metres.
However, the river was recorded steady at upstream Phaphamau, Prayagraj and Mirzapur but was rising at downstream Ghazipur. It was constant in Ballia.