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According to India’s Minister of Environment and Forestry 70% of the country’s wastewater treatment plants are dysfunctional due to high cost of their operation and maintenance and their inability to generate the revenue potential of the valuable byproducts of the wastewater treatment, such as bio- solids, biogas, and treated effluent.
Visits made in the past to India by the facilitators to various wastewater treatment plants in a couple of states revealed that poor performance of treatment was also attributable to the lack of proper training of the operators hired and due to less than the adequate number of staff members needed to maintain and operate wastewater treatment facilities.