Mumbai Tries New Sludge Disposal System

India’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is to apply a new method for the disposal of sludge produced by the treatment of sewage water at pumping stations in and around the city of Mumbai.

BMC will get rid of the sludge by burning it in an incinerator under the second phase of the Mumbai Sewer Disposal Project, a method that will also provide water conservation and power generation, reports dnaindia.com.

BMC will treat sewage water to produce around one billion litres of water per day, which will be used for non-potable purposes.

About 15,000t of sludge, which will be generated from 2.3 billion litres of sewage water daily, will be treated at seven pumping stations.