Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, testament to India's failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage. "We stay inside ...

The Gujarat government is planning to establish a geographical information system (GIS)-based Urban Gati Shakti project to map and monitor sewage treatment plants (STPs) and drainage networks in ...

Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, testament to India’s failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage. “We stay ...

The most detailed report on how sewage from residential drains and industry pollutes the Ganges was published by India’s CPCB in 2013. The data from that report is visualised in the diagram below.

Second, most of the phosphorus that people consume ends up in the sewage. Most sewage in India is still not treated or treated only up to the secondary level. So even if the organic matter is ...

(Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH: India-population-environment-sewage, FOCUS by Simon STURDEE (Photo by ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece ...

Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, a testament to India's failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage. "We stay inside our ...

India's sewerage system does not connect to about two-thirds of its urban homes, according to the National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management Alliance (NFSSM). Many of the sewage treatment ...