Look out of the window the next time you travel by road or by train anywhere in India. Hit a human settlement, and you will see, heaps of plastic coloured garbage apart, pools of dirty black water and drains that go nowhere. They go nowhere because we have forgotten a basic fact: if there are humans, there will be excreta. Indeed, we have also forgotten another truth about the so-called modern world: if there is water use, there will be waste. Roughly 80 per cent of the water that reaches households flows out as waste. I raise, here, two problems. First, we worry about water and not the waste the water will generate; second, we believe we have a ready solution in the form of (still un-built) sewage treatment plants. Planners worry
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/opinion/water-water-0
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sunita-narain
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pollution
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-conservation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-treatment-technology
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-harvesting
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-demand
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sewage-pollution
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sewage-treatment-plants-stp
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wastewater-recycling
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-supply
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi
