Friends do you also think that we are suffering from Flush and Forgot syndrome?
It is official now! The leading contributor to the water quality degradation in rivers of India is untreated or partially treated sewage, as stated by Mr. J M Pushkar, Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board. Also the newsletter of CPCB established and reaffirmed this stark reality of country’s worsening river systems.
According to the newsletter around 33,000 million litres of sewage is generated everyday but the treatment capacities exist only 21% or 7000 million litres per day including capacity created under the various National River Action Plans.
The mind set of equating sewerage system and water using flush with hygiene as to be changed. Only then tangible progress could be made towards reducing water pollution, treatment cost and water borne diseases.
Remaining I will tell you in next blog post.
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