I saw this website https://nmcg.nic.in/ few days back and this thought stirred in me of why now and till when this gets done.
I went through couple of pages and resources to have a close look of our approach to clean rivers
Few documents that I scanned through:
http://www.cpcb.nic.in/newitems/12.pdf
https://nmcg.nic.in/writereaddata/fileupload/13_NMCG118Prioritytowns.pdf
http://cpcb.nic.in/upload/NewItems/NewItem_195_STP_REPORT.pdf
http://www.idfc.com/pdf/report/2011/Chp-18-Industrial-Water-Demand-in-India-Challenges.pdf
As I could not find anything innovative and for most of the part the Namami Gange projects is about setting up more Seewage treatment plants and community awareness programs.
Anyways, as usual this Idea popped into my head so thought of Hawking it all here :
(As crude as crude oil, contributors welcomed)
On saving our mother rivers from dying
of pollution:
Concept:
About an alternative strategy to combat river and water
resource pollution.
Pointers:
Rivers should be freed of the burden of carrying sewage.
Rest would be taken care by the rivers themselves. Flowing water would take all
existing waste to the ocean the next monsoon arrives.
The idea is to establish a network of waste water canals (channels)
that run through about 35 Metropolitan with >10 L population, and collects
the 3500 MLD/day of sewage from each these cities.
This sewage can then be treated at treatment plants installed
at various “Treatment centers and could be put to use for industrial /
agricultural usage and residual can be made to dump into the wasteland like
desserts or oceans.
These “sewage carrying canals can be built along the course
of existing rivers, they should be chambered and not open so that accidently
they do not mix with river water with concrete as the base so they do not allow
seepage to the found water.
The budget to dig these “Alternative channels” could be
arranged by – Shramdaan, agriculture and industrial corridors on usage of this
channels as discharge channels for their waste water and also as a source of
treated water for their purposes. By pledging shramdaan,
people can help digging this alternative channel (Pseudo River) in their areas
and this effort to save rivers could be into a national movement.
Little psychology:
Generally, it is difficult for people and masses to perceive
generalized and complex instructions, e.g., from statements like: come lets clean
our rivers or come let`s get the silt and trash out of the rivers, people could
not draw clear call to actions while it is seen that simpler instructions and
with clear call to action is easily comprehensible and appeals to the human
mind and can be easily turned into a mass movement, e.g., come lets dig a hole for
a day and save our river from dying.
This approach is the ultimate and permanent solution to
address water pollution as once established this channel would ensure for
generations that no sewage contaminates the river through their course and also
provide more control on how we would want this sewage to be treated and provide
water that’s used for industries and still does not impact water fit for
drinking and domestic purposes.
More can be contributed in this direction if provided a suitable
opportunity....
Gyaniiis are welcomed to comment and share there wisdom :)
