The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) and European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC) have entered into a partnership for restoring the river Ganga.
EBTC, an initiative co-funded by the European Union (EU), and coordinated by Eurochambers, said on Saturday that it was organising the “India Water Impact Summit” from December 3 to 5 in the Capital.
EBTC is aiming to bring in relevant technologies from EU research institutions and companies. EBTC’s environment sector specialist Monish Verma said: “EBTC is working in the context of rivers in India and helping to improve the technologies available for reducing industrial effluent flows into the river”.
The Ganga river basin is regarded as one of the most polluted in the world. It is estimated that over 12 billion litres of sewage and 4 billion litres of industrial effluent are generated in the river basin every day.
Less than one-third of these are treated before they are discharged into the river. According to IITK, in addition to this load, it is estimated that around 52,000 tonnes of solid waste gets generated every day in this basin.