Bengaluru: Every day, rivers and water bodies in Karnataka collectively take at least 1,746 million liters of sewa as the consecutive state government has failed to apply it.
This is when all 140 waste treatment plants work at full capacity, when they don’t, waste that is more untreated discharged into the river.
Data for urban areas of the Central Policy Control Agency (CPCB) shows that Karnataka, on average, produces 4.458 million liters of waste every day and has a treatment capacity installed for 2,712 million liters, leaving around 40% of the resulting waste flowing into the river no treated.
This means that at least 6.3-lakh million liters of waste that are not treated flow into the river every year.
It affects the water bodies throughout the country who left dozens of Habuni struggling with very polluted water.
Nationally, 72,368 million liters per day produced against treatment capacity of 31,841 million liters available.
Magsaysay Awardee Rajendra Singh, known as India Waterman previously told TOI that there was no “estimated solution for problems”, while experts, blamed the industry for most of this pollution, argued that the government in a row looked shortly raised the factory appeared close with the river.
17 The stretch of the K’taka River is very polluted, indicating Senior Stude scientists from Jawaharlal Nehru Center for sophisticated scientific research (JNCASR) which shows that Karnataka is not the only country of river beds is not protected.
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There is no appropriate inspection and thorough test before granting permission,” he said.
In line with observations, data shows that not one state / UT in this country has a treatment capacity that matches generations, while seven of them – Andaman & Islands Nicobar, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland – have zero capacity installed.
Singh, who visited the river throughout India, said that in most states there was not enough waste treatment plants and in many countries even available were not operated efficiently.
Data separately from CPCB shows that Karnataka has 17 stretches of rivers – Arkavathi, LakshMantirtha, Malprbha, Tungabhadra, Bhadra, Cauvery, Kali, Krishna, Shimsha, Asanginalla, Bhima, Kumardhara, Netravathi, Tunga, Yagachi – who are very polluted.
Relative, in 2017, the country has 15 such stretches.
Relatively, there are 351 stretch of rivers contaminated throughout the country, with most of the state failing in pollution reduction.
In 2017, there were 302 stretches like that.
The Ministry of Jal Shakti said that as far as the conservation and rejuvenation of the river went, it has added to the efforts of the country by providing financial and technical assistance to reducing pollution in stretching rivers identified in the country through sponsored schemes.
In addition, sewerage infrastructure is made based on programs such as the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation & Urban Transformation (Amruption) and Smart City Mission from the Ministry of Housing & Urban.