TY - JOUR
T1 - Sewage disposal in the Musi-River, India
T2 - Water quality remediation through irrigation infrastructure
AU - Ensink, Jeroen H.J.
AU - Scott, Christopher A.
AU - Brooker, Simon
AU - Cairncross, Sandy
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements Wastewater research in Hyderabad was supported from core money from the IWMI. Simon Brooker is supported by a Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellowship (073656).
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The disposal of untreated urban sewage in to open water bodies is common in most developing countries. This poses potential negative consequences to public health and agricultural sustainability. Hyderabad, one of India's largest cities, disposes large amounts of its wastewater untreated into the Musi River, from where it is used, with the aid of irrigation weirs, for agricultural production. This paper presents a 14 month (December 2003 - January 2005) water quality survey which aimed to quantify spatial and temporal changes in key water quality parameters along a 40 km stretch of the Musi River. The survey found that river water quality improved dramatically with distance from the city; from untreated sewage in the city to irrigation water safe for use in agriculture 40 km downstream of the city. This improvement was contributed to by different treatment processes caused or aided by the irrigation weirs placed on the river.
AB - The disposal of untreated urban sewage in to open water bodies is common in most developing countries. This poses potential negative consequences to public health and agricultural sustainability. Hyderabad, one of India's largest cities, disposes large amounts of its wastewater untreated into the Musi River, from where it is used, with the aid of irrigation weirs, for agricultural production. This paper presents a 14 month (December 2003 - January 2005) water quality survey which aimed to quantify spatial and temporal changes in key water quality parameters along a 40 km stretch of the Musi River. The survey found that river water quality improved dramatically with distance from the city; from untreated sewage in the city to irrigation water safe for use in agriculture 40 km downstream of the city. This improvement was contributed to by different treatment processes caused or aided by the irrigation weirs placed on the river.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10795-009-9088-4
DO - 10.1007/s10795-009-9088-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956929658
SN - 0168-6291
VL - 24
SP - 65
EP - 77
JO - Irrigation and Drainage Systems
JF - Irrigation and Drainage Systems
IS - 1-2
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