SEWAGE PROBLEM

Friends I am back,

So I was telling you about sewage problem of India. To trace the root of this menace one doesn’t have to travel long back in time. Many of the present towns and cities that came up on the banks of rivers never conceptualized or gave a serious thought to the problem of waste disposal, especially urban sewage that would be generated from residential areas. For them river water is a convenient source for discharging and diluting sewage, thus reducing their workload of treating wastewater or reducing waste generation in the first place. But during those times the country was taking its few steps towards urbanization. Therefore, whatever little sewage treatment networks and plants that were designed and constructed, were based on conservative population estimates. As a result only a small percentage of Indian towns and cities had sewage treatment plants and numerous other smaller cities/towns sprung up unplanned virtually with no sewerage system.
Today, it is manifested in state of rivers especially among the urban areas, which have become highly polluted or even dead due to sewage overload, along with industrial pollutants and agricultural runoff.