Abstract:
There are various ways of promoting sanitation in urban areas depending upon the
physical, social and economic characteristics of the place. An efficient system of
municipal wastewater management, i.e. Sewerage management, is an important tool for
achieving the goal of sanitation for which it must not be ignored. Growing urban population
of developing regions has put immense pressure on the ULBs upon provisions of
infrastructural services for fulling the needs of all the people. Also, it is often observed
that the sewerage management system is a less focused sector as compared to other
sectors such as water supply in most of the Indian cities as revealed in various statistics.
Indian cities have seen a tremendous growth in terms of both area and population in the
past few decades. Still, cities have been using the conventional approaches of treating
and managing sewage generated from those cities. This conventional approach
generally consists of a centralized system for treatment of sewage which is a cost
extensive and less environment friendly process. This dissertation has been conducted
to analyze when and why the conventional systems of wastewater treatment fail to cater
the needs of all the people and explore more reliable alternate approaches of dealing
with sewerage system management taking the case of Indore city in Madhya Pradesh.
Indore is the most populated city in central India and presently depends upon a
centralized sewerage system that is performing poorly in the city. The environmental
implications of the current sewerage system in Indore has resulted in loss of its primary
natural drain i.e. Khan River which has suffered from extreme water pollution and is now
a nallah. The end results of this study talk about the planning interventions and
framework to execute an integrated system for sewerage management at various city
scales of Indore that would be much more sustainable, environment friendly and cost
effective.
