slogan of zero discharge and tertiary treatment of wastewater is becoming a rallying point of all the transnational waste water utilities, their Indian counterparts, international donor development agencies and the several NGO activists and academicians. Hyderabad is a case in point where sewage is being treated to extremely good level broadly upto the desired effluent standards. Incidentally, two such plants have been done by a private company for HMDA, Hyderabad and treated sewage quality is so good that HMDA has now floated tender for sell of this water for non-potable use Industrial Pollution • These are complex effluent and needs large investment if we are to ensure long term solution. • Currently situation is so bad that this will end up panelizing most of the ULBs. We must create a time bound program city-wise under a technically competent nodal
agency
within
ULBs.
If
this
requires
outsourcing
external
agencies/consultants, this must be done Drinking water supply and quality • Source water quality is mostly contaminated in these basin to an extent where it is not possible to treat water fit for drinking as per applicable quality standards. Conventional treatment cannot produce requisite drinking water
forward in this direction which need to be viewed from larger scale
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There is need for a technological intervention and Agra city has taken huge step
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quality from these sources.