wastewater

 A comprehensive definition of "wastewater" has been given by the "Sick water" declaration declared in 2010 by UN-Habitat, the United Nations organization that has the main responsibility for wastewater management for sustainable development. 

According to this, sewage is defined as domestic sewage containing black water (urine, faeces, muck) and gray water and discharged after use by commercial and non-commercial establishments including hospitals, industries, urban and other runoff agricultural structures, hydroponic crops.

Waste is defined as follows by the National Environment Act No. 47 of 1087 as amended by Acts No. 53 of 2000 and No. 56 of 1988. "Waste includes any material determined to be waste and any liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive product released, removed or added to the environment that is capable of causing a change in the environment having any concentration or form. 

However, the above definition does not provide a detailed definition of "wastewater".

There are approaches to managing wastewater in an environmentally friendly and regulatory manner and 03 main types of approaches have been identified. Under this, centralized, decentralized and integrated wastewater management systems have been identified as the main general approaches used in the world.

When choosing approaches to wastewater management. Selection factors such as population, nature of the area, technical capacity, level of economic development and prevalent industries and services should be considered and the quality of the discharged wastewater should be safe for the end consumer and environmentally friendly.

Therefore, Vatican management is essential to properly dispose of such waste water and not harm people.

In this way, this study is about waste management and Vatican management as a way to manage the waste generated in Sainthamaruthu area.