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Fund crunch hits STPs construction
Quantity of sewerage effluents has been increasing with the rising population in the city. Yet, the city lacks adequate number of Sewerage Treatement Plants (STPs). As a result, 600 million litres of sewerage water, without being treated, is released into nearby water bodies every day.
Due to lack of adequate number of sewerage treatment plants in Hyd, untreated waste water is released into Nalas which feed farm lands on the outskirts
Hyderabad: Quantity of sewerage effluents has been increasing with the rising population in the city. Yet, the city lacks adequate number of Sewerage Treatement Plants (STPs). As a result, 600 million litres of sewerage water, without being treated, is released into nearby water bodies every day.
Officials from Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) state the lack of funds as the reason for not being able to construct adequate number of STPs in the city. From 1,350 million litres per day (MLD), sewerage effluents quantity rose to 1,480 MLD last year out of which 560 MLD is treated; GHMC officials claim.
But officials from the HMWS&SB claim that over 800 MLD of sewerage water is treated in the city daily. Even if we accept that 800 MLD is treated, that leaves the rest of 680 million liters of sewerage water as untreated everyday. This untreated sewerage water is released into water bodies such as Musi River, the nalas connected to it and the tanks in the areas.
The city comprises a total of five major Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) in areas of Attapur, Musheerabad, Ashok Nagar and Jeedimetla with a few private STPs which together treat a total of 800 MLD sewerage effluents as is claimed by the technical officials of HMWS&SB.
They also informed that there is an urgent requirement to change the old Sewerage System around the city peripherals. But it is delayed due to lack of funds. A 400 crore project to change the sewerage system in the old city was planned in 2008.
But, there is no new schemes for improving sewerage system in new city. As a result, sewerage effluents leak out of the old pipelines and joins into nalas which serve as water source for farmlands in the city outskirts.
By: Sasidhar Kocharlakota
