How microbes can clean polluted water, from drains to rivers


Can the problem of water pollution be checked by letting loose sewage-eating microbes?

The answer is yes and the technology that offers this hope—bioremediation—doesn’t cost the earth.

Indeed, authorities in India are batting for this technology, both to clean drains and to check pollution in the river Ganga, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project.

The technology has been successfully demonstrated in pilot projects by the Central Pollution Control Board. And the National Mission for Clean Ganga is now in the process of using bioremediation for cleaning up some parts of the river.

Internationally, the technology has been used in several countries................Read more

 

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