gb_bharat Posted June 18, 2013 Report Posted June 18, 2013 HYDERABAD: Home to Asia's first office of Facebook and Google's first engineering unit in India, these companies along with hundreds have taken Hyderabad right on top of the global map by providing zillions of solutions worldwide, but when it comes to tackling toilet waste, mana city has failed miserably. With very few of the total sewerage treatment plants (STP) working properly, waste flowing from the toilets of top IT companies in the southern city's "hi-tech" zone have polluted adjoining water bodies to such an extent that it's on the verge of an epidemic, environmentalists warned. Apart from housing offices of Microsoft, Oracle and IBM, global search engine Google, runs its worldwide engineering, online sales operations and human resource operations out of Hyderabad and many more big companies are opening office. But environmentalists are worried about how untreated waste from commercial and residential structures, straightaway find its way into nearby lakes and open drains, killing aquatic life and is now threatening humans. "The lakes in the area are burdened with sewage," said Thakur Rajkumar Singh, local activist and a resident of the area. "It seems the sewage water has seeped into the water table which can have devastating effects on human lives. Though some companies claim that they have STPs, most of the time untreated water is dumped into the nearby water bodies," he said. Activists said most of the companies outsource the maintenance of the premises to third parties. "This is not their core area of work and hence they are often in the dark on how these sewerage treatment plants are affecting the environment," Syed Shah Ali Hussaini, a local IT employee and activist. Hyderabad, once home to over 3,000 lakes has been reduced to about 100-odd water bodies, with most of them encroached upon or polluted with effluents dumped by chemical and pharma companies. "There is every possibility of an epidemic like situation here due to accumulation of untreated waste," said USN Murty, head, Biology division of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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