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Minister for Forests and Ecology Eshwar Khandre said successful Belagavi connected Thursday that home wastewater generated from residential areas of municipalities and villages successful the stream basin is straight oregon indirectly entering 12 rivers successful the State causing decease of marine beingness and affecting the lives of residents of 30 municipality and agrarian areas.
Responding to a question by subordinate Darshan Puttannaiah successful the Aassembly, helium said that a time-bound enactment program has been prepared to revive specified rivers.
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board is trying to efficaciously instrumentality the Water Pollution (Control and Prevention) Act 1974 and is issuing constitution permits and operating consent letters nether Sections 25 and 26 of the 1974 Act.
These see ensuring that wastewater generated by industries is treated and reused. It is the work of the industries to follow wastewater attraction plants to dainty wastewater and dainty and purify it to the prescribed prime standards and reuse it.
Though respective municipality section bodies person acceptable up coagulated discarded absorption units and sewage attraction plants, determination is inactive a request to purify 203 cardinal litres of h2o per day. As galore arsenic 19 ULBs are moving connected mounting up sewage attraction plants.
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has besides suggested adopting Wetland Treatment System for treating sewage entering rivers done drains. The committee has filed transgression complaints against officials successful 11 towns and issued notices to officers successful 12 others.
