Widening gaps in liquid waste management in Kerala
The Hindu
Kerala has a meagre 13% infrastructural capacity to treat the total feacal sludge generated daily, according to the data available with the Department of Local Self Government.
Only 5% of the septage/sewage waste generated in Kerala is processed in treatment facilities set up as per the norms, according to official estimates.
The remaining 95% waste is discharged in violation of the rules into streams, drains, canals, lakes and rivers.
The State has a meagre 13% infrastructural capacity to treat the total feacal sludge generated daily, according to the data available with the Department of Local Self Government.
The government has admitted that the waterbodies have been heavily polluted owing to the illegal discharge of untreated wastewater into the waterbodies.
The widening gaps in the liquid waste management had forced the National Green Tribunal to pull up the authorities for non-compliance of rules pertaining to waste management.
Several cases remain pending before the green court and the government itself had stated that the situation remained serious and the chances of the tribunal imposing environment compensation on the local bodies for the violations are high.
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