Barrage of sewage
Kanpur will have a Rs 412.44 crore Ganga drain by 2031
Kanpur will have a Rs 412.44 crore Ganga drain by 2031
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is planning to provide industrial washing machines to traditional riverbank washermen in Delhi operating along the Yamuna. The corporation feels that introduction of washing machines would reduce water consumption and ensure a cleaner operation.
Chasing treatment plants, not sewage
But government sweeps over
In Delhi, nobody knows!
The planning mess must change
What is the quality of treatment in sewage plants?
This investigation into Delhi's underbelly began with a visit to a sewage treatment plant located in the eastern part of the city, situated between a highly congested and relatively poorer part of
The current pipe-drains-plant strategy is not working. Therefore, more of the same, without reworking its approach, will mean just more money down the drain. <br><br> The Yamuna is Delhi's shame. But its pollution management is its government's shame. It cannot be acceptable that we have spent money, time and energy, but have so little. <br>
<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Ensure all waste, legal and illegal, is trapped and treated to keep the drain clean <br><font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Augment and optimise treatment facilities, where needed, to treat this waste. Appropriate technologies of scale (centralised or local) should be adopted <br><font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Ensure treated effluent is reused and not mixed with untreated effluent before it flows to river
This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India’s richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The plot is an economical one: the Yamuna stretches 22 kilometres along Delhi, but after Rs 55 crore to Rs 75 cror
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The popular Hindi saying
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Industries, government, ignore apex court committee s proposals for effluent treatment
Renace
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