hyderabad the hyderabad metropolitan water supply and sewerage board hmwssb will soon undertake a cleanup of the musi river the musi river pollution abatement project has been cleared by the centre and will be presented to the union cabinet for approval soonspeaking at the inaugural session of a meeting on hyderabad water management information system on monday hmwssb managing director m g gopal said five sewage treatment plants stps would be set up along the 18 km course of the river passing through the city to treat the water the treated water will be used either to recharge aquifers or for agricultural or industrial purposes seventy per cent of the rs 344 crore needed for the project will be provided by the government of india and the balance by the state governmentthe musi which was once a source of drinking water for the city is now a trickle of sewage with about 150 million litres a day mld of untreated sewage and 113 mld of treated sewage being out into the river this sewage along with industrial effluents makes a toxic cocktail gopal said at number of places vegetables and fodder are grown on river bed which enables toxic elements to enter the human food chain cleaning up river will help solve a number of pollution and healthrelated problems gopal said b m birla science centre director b g siddharth said the hyderabad water management information system is a twoyear european unionindia project under the asia urbs programme which hmwssb the cities of modling and venice eurotech management arc seibersdorf and iclei partners it is being coordinated by the birla science centrecentre clears musi pollution abatement projectfive sewage treatment plants to be set uptreated water to be used for industries operation clean