CONCEPT – FSTP - FAECAL SLUDGE TREATMENT PLANTS

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 CONCEPT – FSTP - FAECAL SLUDGE TREATMENT PLANTS

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• India has around 7,000 towns with less than 1 million population and almost all of these towns do not have an efficient underground sewerage system connected to a sewage treatment plant. India’s first Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) built in Devanahalli, Karnataka has a potential to change that. Build through a partnership of CDD Society and the Devanahalli Town Municipal Corporation, the plant efficiently converts the toilet waste of a town of 30,000 into compost for farmers.
• Fully underground gravity based FSTP doesn’t require electricity and creates compost to boost agriculture. This model of FSTP can be a low cost and effective solution for India’s sewage treatment problems.
• In order to over come the problem of untreated sewage, the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation(GWMC) with the help of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is setting up a  Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) at Ammavaaripeta area on the city outskirts at a cost of Rs.1.2 crore. 
• The plant has been entrusted to Bengaluru based company Tide Technocrats, an environmental and sustainable consulting organisation and also empaneled consultant for Swacch Bharat Mission. The plant being set up on 2 acres of land provided by the corporation would clean 16,000 litres of sludge everyday. 
• Plant to be based on thermal technology, the corporation is keen to construct a FSTP to treat the faecal sludge so that water could be reused for watering plants and the sludge for fertiliser. The treatment plant would also prevent unauthorised dumping of faecal waste.
• “Unlike other FSTP plants which are based on biotechnology, this particular plant would be based on thermal technology. This is for the first time in the country, a thermal-based FSTP is being set up by a civic body. This one is much better than bio-based FSTPs as it does not emit any bad smell and the bio waste could be utilised as fertiliser.
• About 200 kg of compost would generate everyday. Through the sale of compost, the corporation could also earn a good revenue,” he pointed out. Even the treated water would be utilised to water plants in corporation’s nurseries and parks, “This would save lot of ground water for the corporation,” he said. Tide Technocrats, which is executing the project, is procuring the thermal container from US.  
• The company would be taking care of the plant for a period of one year and after that the corporation has to make arrangement for its maintenance. 

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