Effectiveness of Wastewater Collection and Treatment Systems

Abstract

This chapter discusses the situation in Indian cities and towns with regard to wastewater generation, collection and treatment systems. The statistics pertaining to water supply by urban water utilities, wastewater generation, sewage collection, existing capacities for treatment of wastewater and actual volume of sewage treated in the existing facilities are presented and analyzed across city classes, i.e., metropolitan cities and class I and class II cities. While comparing the wastewater treatment capacity available across states, issues pertaining to low capacity utilization of wastewater treatment plants are also discussed.