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 Destroying waterbodies [1]


a move to solve one problem, is creating another one for the Andhra Pradesh government. The Supreme Court had ordered the state governments to dispose off effluents without contaminating any waterbody. To implement this order, the Andhra Pradesh government has recently decided to lay a pipeline that would connect Hyderabad's common effluent treatment plant with a sewer that will be drained into a river body. The dilemma that now confronts the state government is the choice of the victim

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth [2]
Tags:
Water Pollution [3], River Pollution [4], Musi [5], Supreme Court [6], Andhra Pradesh [7], Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) [8]
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