Sewage Pollution in Central India

Raipur is a fast growing city in central India due to being commercial centre for the steel, cement and forest products of the country. Large quantity (≈300 million lit/day) of untreated sewage waste water is discharged into seven reservoirs located in the city. Sewage carries excessive nu-trients, heavy metals, organics, bacteria, yeast and fungi by leaking contents into the drinking wa-ter which cause acute health problems, ranging from common diarrhoea to deadly diseases such as hepatitis, cholera, typhoid fever, etc. Therefore, in this work, the microbial and chemical con-tamination of sewage waste of Raipur city, Chhattisgarh, India is described