River pollution: India

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2009-15: The five states with the highest river pollution, Graphic courtesy: The Times of India

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Sewage flowing into Indian rivers

The Times of India

Mar 23 2015

37,000 million litres of sewage flows into rivers daily: Report

Vishwa Mohan

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in its recent report noted that nearly 37,000 million liters per day (MLD) of `untreated' sewage water flows into rivers across the country.

The report, submitted to the environment ministry last month, said though the sewage treatment capacity in the country was augmented over the years, the wide gap between sewage generation (57,000 MLD) and treatment capacity (20,358 MLD) kept polluting water resources ­ be it river water or groundwater.

As many as 302 river stretches on 275 rivers across the country have got polluted due to discharge of both municipal and industrial waste water over the years.

At a time when the government is focusing more on Ganga and Yamuna, the issue of polluted river stretches on other rivers appear to have been pushed to the backburner. PM Narendra Modi is expected to focus on this `gap' when he chairs a meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on March 26.