Another first: Cleanest city is also 'Water Plus' now

Another first: Cleanest city is also 'Water Plus' now

Indore has chances of securing 7-Star City Rating

Staff ReporterUpdated: Thursday, August 12, 2021, 12:37 AM IST
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WORK in progress to clean Kanh river |

Indore: The country’s cleanest city, Indore on Wednesday has now been declared India’s first Water Plus city. This feat has strengthened the state’s commercial capital’s chances of securing cleanest city tag for the fifth time in a row. At least for now, Indore chances of securing 7 Star City Rating under Garbage Free Cities, a category of Swachh Survekshan 2021, have brightened.

CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan congratulated Indoreans for the achievement adding that Indore has set an example for other cities. “Heartiest congratulations to the citizens of Indore as it becomes the first SBM (Swachh Bharat Mission) Water+ certified city under #SwachhSurvekshan2021. Indore has been an example for the whole nation for its determination and dedication towards cleanliness. May it continue to bring glory to the state,” CM said in a tweet. A city can be declared as Water Plus provided all wastewater released from households, commercial establishments, drains, nullahs etc is treated to a satisfactory level (as per CPCB norms), before releasing the treated wastewater to the environment. Further, adequate capacity of wastewater and sewage treatment facilities is to be ensured. The infrastructure should be maintained properly and cost recovery is ensured through reuse/recycling of treated wastewater to ensure sustainability.

A team of experts who had carried out an inspection in the city last month had found that nalluh tapping had been done to ensure that wastewater released from various sources are not going into Kanh and Saraswati rivers. The wastewater is channelized towards sewerage treatment plant. STP treats water is then released into Kahn and Saraswati rivers. The treated water is also used in gardens and for irrigation purpose in the city.

District collector Manish Singh said, “According to the guidelines of Water Plus Protocol, 1,746 public and 5,624 domestic sewer outfalls in 25 small and big nullahs were tapped by the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) which also freed the city's Kanh and Saraswati rivers from being dumping grounds for sewage.”

Municipal commissioner Pratibha Pal said that seven sewage treatment plants were constructed in the city and about 110 million litres per day (MLD) treated water from them is being used. “According to the guidelines of Water Plus Protocol, 147 special types of urinals were constructed in the city. Besides, the work of cleaning ponds, wells and all water bodies has also been done,” she added.

What Indore changed

--About 205 MLD sewage water used to flow in Kanh and Saraswati rivers and 25 drains. There were 433 outflows into rivers, 1313 in big drains and 5242 sewage sewerage outfalls in small drains.

---IMC got 5500 houses situated on the banks of river and drains tapped. Under this, 7 new decentralized STPs setup. The work of laying a new sewer line was completed in the last two years.

--- About 7000 residents wastewater line to main sewerage line at their own cost.

A total of 312 MLD sewerage is treated daily in Indore, after which 205 MLD treated is released into Kanh and Saraswati rivers.

---101 MLD treated clean water is reused for various works like washing of roads, irrigation of gardens, washing of buses etc.

-- Irrigation in some villages in the district is being done with treated water.

--Today, BOD in Kanh and Saraswati river in Indore city has reached 05 mg1 from its level of 120 mg1 and COD where it used to be above 300 mg1 has now reached below 50 mg1. The level of Desolve Oxygen is zero to 03-04 mg1, thereby reviving aquatic life.

--Today Indore is completely free from open defecation, after the construction of individual toilets in 100 percent households, the city's dependence on community toilets has ended.

-- Public toilets and standalone urinals are available at all public places in the city.

---All these public facilities and toilets of 99.98 percent of the households are connected to the sewerage network, in the remaining 0.02 percent of the houses, the facility of septic tank or twin pit is available with soak pit.

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