National status of waste water generation & treatment

Sewage generation and treatment

During 2015,the estimated sewage generation in the country was 61754 MLD as against the developed sewage
treatment capacity of 22963 MLD. Because of the hiatus in sewage treatment capacity, about 38791 MLD of
untreated sewage (62% of the total sewage) is discharged directly into nearby water bodies
The five states viz Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi & Gujarat account for approximately 50% of the
total sewage generated in the country. Maharashtra alone accounts for 13% of the total sewage generation in the
country.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi , Uttar Pradesh & Gujarat account for 67% of the total sewage treatment capacity
installed in the country.
No sewage treatment plant has been established in seven states/UTs viz. Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Daman Diu, Nagaland , Assam & Tripura
The capacity of STPs installed in the two states viz. Himachal Pradesh & Sikkim is adequate to treat the total
quality of sewage generated in these states.

Status of sewage generation and treatment

Statewise percentage generation of sewage

Source : CPCB BULLETIN VOL.-I, JULY 2016, Updated on December 6th, 2016
 Status on Sewage Generation in Metropolitan Cities, Class-I Cities and Class-II Towns:

Discharge of untreated sewage in water courses both surface and ground waters is the most important water
polluting source in India. Out of about 38000 million liter per day of sewage generated treatment capacity exists for
only about 12000 million liter per day. Thus, there is a large gap between generation and treatment of wastewater in
India. Even the treatment capacity existing is also not effectively utilized due to operation and maintenance problem.
Operation and maintenance of existing plants and sewage pumping stations is not satisfactory, as nearly 39% plants
are not conforming to the general standards prescribed under the Environmental (Protection) Rules for discharge into
streams as per the CPCBs survey report.. In a number of cities, the existing treatment capacity remains underutilized
while a lot of sewage is discharged without treatment in the same city. Auxiliary power back-up facility is required at
all the intermediate (IPS) & main pumping stations (MPS) of all the STPs.

Status of Municipal Wastewater Generation and treatment capacity of Metropolitan Cities:

There are 35 metropolitan cities (more than 10 Lac Population), 15,644 Millions Liter Per Day (MLD) of sewage is
generated from these metropolitan cities. The treatment capacity exists for 8040 MLD i.e. 51% is treatment
capacity is created.

Among the Metropolitan cities, Delhi has the maximum treatment capacity that is 2330 MLD (30% of the total
treatment capacity of metropolitan cities)

Next to Delhi, Mumbai has the capacity of 2130 MLD, which is 26% of total capacity in metropolitan cities.

Delhi and Mumbai therefore in combination have 55% of treatment capacity of the metropolitan cities.

Some cities such as Hyderabad, Vadodara, Chennai and Ludhiana and Ahemedabad treatment capacity meets
the volume of generation.

Cities like Delhi, Dhanbad have more than 50% capacity, rest of the cities have the capacity less than 50%.

STPS located in different state/UTS of India

Source : cpcb annual report 2014-15, Updated on 25th November, 2016
Status of Sewage Generation and Treatment Capacity of Urban Population of India

Sl.No State Sewage Generation Installed Treatment

of Urban Population Capacity (As on March,
in 2015 (MLD) 2015) (MLD)
1. Andaman & Nicobar
22 0
Islands
2. Andhra Pradesh 2871 247.27
3. Arunachal Pradesh 50
4. Assam 703 0.21
5. Bihar 1879 124.55
6. Chandigarh 164 314.5
7. Chhattisgarh 951 0
8. Dadra & Nagar Haveli 26 -
9. Daman & Diu 29 -
10. Goa 145 74.58
11. Gujarat 4119 3062.92
12. Haryana 1413 852.7
13. Himachal Pradesh 110 114.72
14. Jammu & Kashmir 547 264.74
15. Jharkhand 1270 117.24
16. Karnataka 3777 1304.16
17. Kerala 2552 152.97
18. Lakshadweep 8 -
19. Madhya Pradesh 3214 482.23
20. Maharashtra 8143 5160.36
21. Manipur 132 -
22. Meghalaya 95 1
23. Mizoram 90 10
24. Nagaland 92 -
25. Delhi 4155 2693.7
26. Odisha 1121 385.54
27. Pondicherry 136 68.5
28. Punjab 1664 1245.45
29. Rajasthan 2736 865.92
30. Sikkim 24 31.88
31. Tamil Nadu 5599 1799.72
32. Telangana 1671 685.8
33. Tripura 154 0.05
34. Uttar Pradesh 7124 2646.84
35. Uttarakhand 495 152.9
36. West Bengal 4667 416.9
Total 61948 23277

Source : Untreated Sewage Flow into Yamuna.Docx

Source: http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/policy_paper_sm.pdf

Water supply, wastewater generation, treatment in class II cities (MLD)

Source: http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/policy_paper_sm.pdf