DG SEPA warns polluting factories of strict action.

HYDERABAD -- The Director General Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) Naeem Mughal has arranged personal hearing at SEPA Office Hyderabad with all those stakeholders who involved in inadequate treatment of waste water into Kalari Baghar Feeder through at Combined Effluent Treatment Plant.

The SEPA spokesman informed here on Wednesday that the Director General has arranged the said personal hearing under provision of SEP Act-2014 following the directives of Adviser to Chief Minister Barrister Murtaza Wahab. The different stakeholders including Managing Director SITE limited, Chief Engineer SITE limited and representatives of Kotri Association Trade and Industry (KATI) were called at SEPA Hyderabad office on charges of their inadequate treatment of wastewater at CETP which is being generated from different industrial units of SITE Kotri and same is being released into K.B Feeder through CETP, the spokesman informed.

During hearing, it was decided that the Management of Combined Effluent Treatment Plant and SITE limited should make effective strategy for adequate treatment of wastewater at the CETP as per Sindh Environmental Quality Standards (SEQS) so that the fresh water bodies including K.B Feeder and Kanjhar Lake can be saved from contamination of industrial wastewater.

The Director General SEPA emphasized that the factories which are generating toxic wastewater should treat the same with strict compliance as per provisions of SEP Act-2014. Similarly, SITE limited should also take strict action against the factories which were engaged in the violation of the concerned clause of their relevant law so that the issue of treatment of wastewater at CETP could be resolved and the menace of effluent can be rid off eventually.

The Director...