Blue infrastructure

Mithi river is not a regular river. It is a perennial river and whenever the lakes are overflowing it gets the water. Otherwise, it is the backwater of the sea.

Before Mithi enters BKC, there are 70 drains and nullahs that are entering and polluting it. The citizens will have to stop dumping effluent into the river. So, the area from where the effluents pass falls under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) domain.

BMC is planning small sewage treatment plants in these locations. As far as, Mithi river is concerned, MMRDA has taken up a few measures.

MMRDA has taken up a floating sewage material cleaning project and sewage treatment plant with the support of the United Nations. Another project is with support of Mumbai University where MMRDA are using different bacteria to eat up the sewage there.