Namami Gange: River Ganga Saved From Asia's Largest Drain | Causes & Treatment ||

The Biggest Victory Yet For The 'Namami Gange'

Namami Gange Programme, an integrated conservation mission, was approved as the flagship programme by the government in June 2014 with a budget outlay of RS 20,000 crore to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution, conservation, and rejuvenation of the Ganga. 

Main pillars of the Namami Gange

• Sewerage Treatment Infrastructure
• River-Front Development
• River-Surface Clearing
• Bio-Diversity
• Public Awareness
• Ganga Gram
• Industrial Effluent
• Afforestatices

Causes:

The July 2013 report of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) shows unacceptable levels of faecal coliform, a clear sign of human excreta, all along the river's mainstream

According to CPCB's 2013 report, 2723 million liters per day (mld) of domestic sewage is discharged by cities located by cities located along river.

Sewage Issue:

• Approximately 3 billion (3Arab) liters of raw, untreated sewage are dumped in the river on a daily basis.
• The amount has more than doubled in the last 20 years and experts predict another 100% increase in the following 20 years.

The Biggest:

Kanpur unabashedly dumps poisonous industrial effluent into the Ganga, while Varanasi releases its untreated waste water in absence of sewerage network.

Sisamau nala, the largest open drain in Kanpur, is infamous for many reasons.

Note:

The 128- years- old drain in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, which discharged 14 crore liters of untreated sewage to Ganga every day, in one of the major contributors to pollute the dying river.

Asia's Largest Sisamau Drain

Sisamau Nala falls into the Ganga near BhaironGhat:

• Sewage from the drain, which is reportedly 128 years old, used to be dumped into the river through the Bhairo Ghat.
• While 8 crore liters of the sewage had been successfully routed earlier, routing the remaining 6 crore liters proved to be an arduous task.
• However, this has now been achieved by Uttar Pradesh's Jal Nigam and Namami Gange engineers. 
• Sewage from the Sisamau Nala drain in now being diverted to the sewage treatment plant in Jajmou from Bhairo Ghat in Kanpur.
• Till now, nearly eight crore liters of sewage from the drain was being diverted to the sewage treatment plant (STP), but handling the remaining sic crore liters was a challenging task.

Creating Sewerage Treatment Capacity:

• 63 sewerage management projects under implementation in the States of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. 12 new sewerage management Projects Launched in these states. 
• Work is under construction for creating Swerage capacity of 1187.33 (MLD). Hybrid Annuity PPP Model based two projects has been initiated for Jagjeetpur, Haridwar and Ramanna, Varanasi.