Haryana to re-use treated wastewater
The first phase of Rs 500 Crore project to cover 27 STPs.
The government has to go beyond making sewage treatment plants (STPs) and CETPs (common effluent treatment plants) to bring about attitudinal and behavioural change for cleaning the river Ganga and its tributaries, said Union Secretary for Water Resources U P Singh.
“Ganga cleaning means different things to different people… it is a complex issue and a Herculean task,” the secretary said in his inaugural address in a workshop on “Collaboration for Ganga Rejuvenation” here on Thursday.
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The DG, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, said this time the government has adopted an integrated approach using hybrid annuity model in the waste water sector for cleaning Ganga. The NMCG has gone a step ahead to make best use of treated water. It has tied up with the Indian Oil Corporation for reuse of treated sewage water in Mathura refinery, said an NMCG official.
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The workshop was attended by several foreign dignataries including Tomasz Kozlowski, Ambassador, Delegation of the European Union to India, Jan Luykx, Ambassador of Belgium, Micheal A N N Oquaye, High Commissioner of the Republic of Ghana, Alich Bak, Head of Chancery, Republic of Gambia, and Adva Vilchinski, Political Adviser to the Embassy of Israel.
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