Cleaner waters and more productive ecosystems

1. Healthy Ganga:
Cleaner Waters and more Productive Ecosystems
Javier Mateo-Sagasta
(Senior researcher, IWMI)

2. • Ganga under pressure
• WLE project: main components
• Component 1: Pollution from small and
medium cites
• Component 1: Progress and plans
• This workshop
• Q&A
Outline

3. Ganga under pressure: pollution
655 million people in the basin
43% of Indian population
Urbanization and industrialization
Agriculture intensification
Higher water use
Massive pollution loads
Pic: Neil Palmer / IWMI

4. Fifty cities along the river +
Septage:
Sewage:
Millions of septic tanks and pit latrines with
no further sludge treatment
Ganga under pressure: pollution
Source Production
Billion l/d
Capacity
Billion l/d
Gap
CPCB 2.7 1.2 55%
CSE 6.1 ? >80%

5. Class A: water for use as drinking water source without conventional treatment but after disinfection.
Class B: waters for use for organized outdoor bathing.
Class C: Class C waters for use as drinking water source with conventional treatment followed by disinfection.
Source: CPCB 2013, Pollution Assessment: River Ganga, Central Pollution Control Board, MoEF, July
Pollution
Class B
Class A
Ganga under pressure: pollution
monsoon

6. Ganga under pressure: reduced flow
• Intense water abstractions for agriculture
• Hydel projects mushrooming
• Hundreds of kilometers with no or very
low flows
• Disrupted ecosystems and less capacity
to carry pollution loads

7. WLE Healthy Ganga Project

8. Water quality and flow modelling (IIT Kanpur)
Gender and social aspects (IRMA)
Uptake and communication
(NMCG, Local and state authorities, etc)
Project components and partners
Pollution
control from
small and
medium
cities
(IWMI)
(WSP)
Environmental
flows in the
Upper Ganga
(WWF)

9. Project locations
Mughalsarai
Unnao
Gangaghat

10. Project component 1:
Pollution from small and medium cities in UP
• Why small and medium cities?
50 cities (36 class II, 14 class I)
• Why UP?
Water pollution hotspot
• Why Mugalsharai, Gangaghat and Unnao
Ganga pollution
Political support
No STPs and almost no sewers

11. • Integrated baseline assessments of the 3 selected cities to
identify challenges and opportunities for pollution prevention
(focus on fecal pollution)
Project component 1:
Outputs: Progress and plans
• Stakeholder recommended solutions for pollution
abatement in the 3 selected cities
• Feasibility studies for the most promising solutions
• New entry points for equitable engagement for women and
men in pollution abatement
• Replication potential for the most promising solutions and
effectiveness of such replication

12. Expected Outcomes from Comp. 1
 Support urban authorities to make evidence based city
sanitation plans (and/or urban river management plans)
 Support for designing an implementing feasible and
context-specific models for septage and sewage
management
 For targeting investments and develop cost-effective
strategies por pollution control

13. Today’s workshop
Objectives
 Present the integrated baseline assessment conducted in Unnao,
Mugalsharai and Gangaghat
 Present and discuss potential solutions to address the challenges and
opportunities identified
Expected results
 Stakeholder validated baseline assessment of challenges in Unnao,
Mugalsharai and Gangaghat
 List of potential solutions for which the project could make feasibility
studies in 2016

14. Today’s workshop: Draft program
9:00 – 09:45 Session 1: Opening and Background
10:15 – 11:30 Session 2: Assessments in Unnao, Mugalsharai and
Gangaghat
11:30 – 12:30 Session 3: Non-conventional solutions for small and medium
size cities
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 16:30 Session 4: Discussions on solutions for Unnao, Mugalsharai
and Gangaghat
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up, follow up and closure

15. Thank you!