The transport of human waste tosewage treatment Plants(STPs) involves cost and time and often leads to dumping of the waste at undesignated sites, resulting in pollution. Now, a team at BITS-Pilanis Goa campus has developed a solution in which waste is treated at site.
At the popular Bogmalo beach in Mormugao, the institute has installed these toilets with the treatment system, at a cost of around Rs 22 lakh. The installations are funded by the Union governments department of Biotechnology and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This decentralised treatment system with vertical flow constructed wetland and electrochemical disinfection system.
The effluent coming out of this treatment system will be suitable for further processing or will be safer in case it does not go through anySTPtreatment.