India Plans $1.3-Billion Sewage Plants in Towns Along the Ganges
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India plans to order 80 billion-rupees ($1.3 billion) of sewage plants before next June to clean waste water in 118 towns on the banks of the Ganges, its holiest river, according to the nation’s water ministry.
The government, which is working on 50 treatment projects, will call for tenders to build another 68 sewage plants by next month, according to a presentation made by the water ministry. The remaining tenders will be out by June next year, it said.