I had mixed feelings about the importance of cleaning up a river at the expense of the people who are the very part of the city they help to build.Its definitely a huge decision to make for authorities looking into the whole socio-political composition of this city.
Its not a mere "cleaning up problem" that everyone agree to, its more to do with the sewage-water treatment problem that our city is grappling with growing population.And this is not as simple a problem to resolve going through the STP report
The scope of the study includes the following
i) collection of data on water supply and future growth;
ii) wastewater generation, existing sewerage system and sewage treatment plants (STPs);
iii) proposals for augmenting capacity of sewage treatment plants;
iv) status of existing sewerage system; v) sewage treatment capacity & its utilization;
vi) amount of sewage flow in the drains/nallas joining the river Yamuna;
vii) main tributaries of major drains;
viii) quality of waste water flowing in the 22 drains out falling into the river Yamuna;
ix) performance study of each of the 30 STPs in Delhi in terms of pH, COD, BOD, coliforms, conductivity and TSS;
x) evaluation of the gap between wastewater generation and treatment status and; xi) finally to assess overall reduction in BOD load generated in Delhi & the load getting into the river Yamuna.
The complete report can be found here :
www.cpcb.nic.in/oldwebsite/New%20Item/
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