Reusing treated wastewater can help reduce freshwater demand. But how to ensure well functioning STPs in apartments that provide quality treated water?
The hike in the annual Consent for Operation fee is arbitrary and, worse, could discourage people from treating their sewage. It is especially unfair to law-abiding citizens.
The KSPCB which allows establishment of STPs without stringent checks, is now imposing an expensive and overkill solution whose technology could soon be obsolete.
As per environmental jurisprudence, the polluter has to pay. But apartment STPs (sewage treatment plants) are usually set up and approved by five different players. So who’s the real polluter when an STP is defective?
KSPCB has been asking apartments in the city to pay up lakhs as compensation for defective sewage treatment plants. But the Board itself is responsible for approving many plants that had design and fabrication issues.
Apartment STPs (Sewage Treatment Plants) are set up after getting government approvals, yet they malfunction soon and residents keep spending lakhs to correct defects. This scenario can change with some reforms in the STP approval process.
