{"id":35061,"date":"2018-10-31T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35061"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:30:25","slug":"business-of-cleanliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/business-of-cleanliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Of Cleanliness:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/business-of-cleanliness-indore-india-cleanest-city-4851686\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business Of Cleanliness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Brief overview<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article talks about:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Swachh Bharat Mission<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Challenge of disposing fecal waste<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fecal Sludge Management as a solution; FSM advantages<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Swachh Bharat Mission<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Swachh Bharat Mission plans to achieve safe sanitation for all by 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has a clearly-defined progress path for achieving open defecation free cities and districts\/villages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also a well-defined process, for the different phases of the mission, across the sanitation value chain \u2014 build, use, maintain and treat (BUMT).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Challenge of disposing fecal waste<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nationally, we generate a staggering 1.7 million tonnes of fecal waste every day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no systems in place to safely dispose the bulk of this waste.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly 80 per cent of this sludge remains untreated and is dumped into drains, lakes or rivers, posing a serious threat to safe and healthy living.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This poses grievous dangers of infection since the untreated sludge comes back into human contact through either the soil, or through untreated water contaminated with the bacteria and pathogen load of the dumped sludge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We lose nearly 1,000 children a day to poor sanitation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Fecal Sludge Management<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FSM is successfully adopted by several countries in south-east Asia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FSM involves collecting, transporting and treating fecal sludge and septage from pit latrines, septic tanks or other<\/span> onsite sanitation systems.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This waste is then treated at septage treatment plants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a cost and time effective system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The waste is collected by private operators, who empty the sludge using vacu-trucks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now these truck operators can be monitored through a simple GPS tracking process in order to ensure that they dump the waste at treatment plants\/pre-determined sites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FSM ecosystem requires its stakeholders- government, private vacu-truck operators and citizens- to collaborate closely.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Advantages of FSM<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most significant benefit that improved sanitation is improved public health.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cleaner water bodies mean reduced incidence of water-borne diseases and reduced mortality linked to diarrhoeal diseases \u2014 especially among children less than five years old.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a huge potential in the FSM system businesses for sanitation workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The sludge is nutrient-rich. The waste, after treatment, can be:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Used by farmers as organic compost<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">treated and used for biogas, or to manufacture fuel pellets or ethanol<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used for irrigation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used for construction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used in cooling plants<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used by housing societies for gardens and flushing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used by government agencies for parks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With appropriate training, sanitation workers can be empowered to own and run FSM businesses \u2014 much like the producer cooperatives of the agriculture sector.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way Forward<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Effective sanitation measures like FSM are critical in saving these lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A national policy is in place; it is now incumbent on cities and state governments to operationalise it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FSM is not only an engineering or infrastructure solution, but a city system that requires the resolve of each stakeholder to make the city fecal sludge free, and meet the objective of clean cities, as envisioned in the Swachh Bharat Mission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Of Cleanliness:\u00a0 Brief overview The article talks about: The Swachh Bharat Mission Challenge of disposing fecal waste Fecal Sludge Management as a solution; FSM advantages Swachh Bharat Mission The Swachh Bharat Mission plans to achieve safe sanitation for all by 2019. 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