THE THEN POIGNANT RIVER THAMES AND THE GANGES RIVER OF TODAY

It was the world environment day, a few days back, on the June 5th, 2015. No matter where one lives, humans are living on the same boat; the planet earth, as far as the environmental issues are concerned.

The Ganges river problems, in India are well highlighted on the following link:
http://www.care2.com/causes/saving-the-ganges.html#ixzz3ceGoenyM
"Problems and Solutions for the Ganges River"

Most of the main pollution issues with the Ganges deals with improper sewage management. New Delhi alone produces 3.6 billion liters of sewage daily, with only half being treated effectively. Some of the tributaries of the Ganges, like Yamuna, have already become unusable since 70 percent of the pollution is caused from human excrement.....
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Vis a' vis this grave problem which it is like a bone in the throat of the Indian government, one may flash back in the history, for a similar case; i.e. the river Thames, and try with the aid of the recent technology developments (it will be addressed to, further below,) to follow the similar effective measures executed on this river, in decades ago:
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http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/riverthames/pollution.htm

The River Thames, From Source to Sea

The River Thames is the cleanest river in the world that flows through a major city. This is a major feat considering that fifty years ago the river was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead.
From 1830 to 1860 tens of thousands of people died of cholera as a result of the pollution in the Thames. Sewage was being discharged directly into the Thames. Despite the foul smell, people continued to wash and bathe and drink from the river.....

As a picture is worth a thousand words, one may visit the following link, for the WEB and IMAGES, viewing the humans knowledge, regarding the energy content embedded into cow dung / animals dung, far back in the history and still in practice:
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https://www.google.com/search?q=ANIMAL+DUNG&es_sm=122&biw=1344&bih=759&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIgZDdjOiExgIVgbkUCh3mDABd#tbm=isch&q=COW+DUNG
And on:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_animal_dung_fuel

Dung cooking fire. Pushkar India.

But how about human feces?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_animal_dung_fuel#Human_feces
T he embedded energy in human feces is not an exception and it is a source of energy indeed:
Human feces
Human feces can in principal also be dried and used as a fuel source if they are collected in a type of dry toilet, for example an incinerating toilet. Since 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting the development of such toilets as part of their "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" to promote safer, more effective ways to treat human excreta.[16] The omni-processor is another example of using human feces contained in faecal sludge or sewage sludge as a fuel source.
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Now, that is exactly where the new technology development may be applied, as highlighted on:
http://janickibioenergy.com/index.html

HTTP://JANICKIBIOENERGY.COM/S200.HTML

"MODEL S200 FACT-SHEET"

VOLUME OF SLUDGE PROCESSED PER DAY	92.3 M3 (24,383 GALLONS)
NUMBER OF 10M3 TRUCK LOADS PER DAY	9 TRUCK LOADS
MAXIMUM MOISTURE CONTENT OF SLUDGE	100%
MINIMUM DRY SOLIDS REQUIRED PER DAY*	9 – 11 METRIC TONS (10 – 12 TONS)
ELECTRICITY (DEPENDING ON WATER PRODUCED)	150 – 250 KW (200 – 335 HP)
WATER (DEPENDING ON POWER PRODUCED)	50,000 – 86,000 LITERS (13,000 – 22,700 GALLONS)
ASH (AVERAGE - PER DAY)	1 M3 (35 FT3)
FECAL SLUDGE PROCESSING	100K-200K PEOPLE
ELECTRICITY (10W/HOUSEHOLD)	25K HOUSEHOLDS
DRINKING WATER	35K PEOPLE
PERSONNEL REQUIRED FOR DAILY OPERATION	1-2 PEOPLE/SHIFT
REGULAR MAINTENANCE TASKS	TBD
MUNICIPAL INPUT REQUIREMENTS	NONE
CORE UNIT	11.5 M X 20 M (37.5’ X 65’)
OVERALL PLANT	11.5 M X 29 M (37.5’ X 95.5’)
WATER (TESTING IN PROCESS)	DESIGNED TO MEET U.S. FDA STANDARDS; WHO CERTIFIED
EMISSIONS	MEETS ALL APPLICABLE EPA REQUIREMENTS
PATHOGEN OUTPUT	100% DESTROYED

*Not limited to fecal matter; can be any dry, combustible feedstock fed in as an auxiliary fuel source.

The undersigned has already proposed the application of the omni processor, among its other potential applications, for the remedy of the Ganges river and the like, worldwide, as following (among the 22 comments:)

https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/4108717-5979671926690304002?goback=%2Egmr_4108717%2
Egna_4108717

BilGates sipping water made from Sewer Sludge?
http://ow.ly/Jt4J1ow.ly Bill Gates highlights the importance of improving the quality of life for people around the world. Over 2.5 billion people around the world do not have access to safe sanitation. So, Gates is working with a company to built a sewage treatment machine that turns human waste into drinking water. Comment(22)Like(15)

On the particular cases of the densely sewage-polluted rivers, one may install an Omni Processor package unit, with an appropriate capacity, on each sewage stream, on the river banks, before merging into the river main stream.

Just mentioning similar cases, in addition to Ganges river, there are other rival rivers for the application of the package (Omni Processor - S200,...,) elsewhere, for rivers cleaning-up out of sewage, as follows; however, one may explore more and more potentially sewage-polluted rivers, world around, no matter in developed or developing countries:

http://www.takepart.com/photos/10-most-polluted-rivers-world
"Most Polluted Rivers in the World"
Attention swimmers: Beware the dangers lurking below the surface of the most polluted rivers in the world!

Yes, still a bothersome human feces, may provide potable water, electrical energy, ashes as fertilizers, and above all, serving the environment and sanitation. One may also consider the job creation / solving unemployment at the outcome, worldwide (http://janickibioenergy.com/,) and solving many sewage problems, exerted from humans and animals, no matter in developed or developing countries.

It may be predicted that, Omni Processor - S200, and possibly the future larger units, sooner or later worldwide, no matter in developed or developing countries, will become at least, the potential competitors for the anaerobic bio gas producing units, in sewage handling.

As such, the Omni Processor, not only may find its way into developing world and in small and big-scale animal husbandry units everywhere, but it could find its application as well in every sewage treatment plant worldwide, if proved more favorable in regard to life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions effect, in comparison to the rival Biogas process, already in vogue world around, in which electrical power is produced out of Biogas combustion engines plus stabilized sludge at the bottom of the Biogas Anaerobic Digestors, to be used as fertilizer.

Iimagine - hoping not over-estimating - that one day a new business may be booming, worldwide, for septic trucks being hired to pump out the sewage, no matter where from, and carry it away, perhaps at moderate costs or for free, to "Omni Processor units," elsewhere near big farms, sewage treatment plants, and the like, where a good price to be paid for the sewage, as a fuel (this reminded a humor, about a farmer who used spreading human elimination on his farm, while hiding and denying it, but had hired workers with buckets in hands, collecting feces in covert, via digging holes on the back walls of toilets, in his area; hoping no one will be stealing sewage via a hose connected to a vacuum pump, later on.)

Note 1: Those interested in finding out the present pollution condition, now, in 2015, in the Ganges river, may refer to the following link:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/ganga-water-quality-plunges-despite-rs-986-cr-spending-over-30-years-115060100338_1.html

Note 2: Also Ganga action plan on the following link:

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resourcesquality/watpolcontrol.pdf

Water Pollution Control - A Guide to the Use of Water Quality Management
Principles
Edited by Richard Helmer and Ivanildo Hespanhol
Published on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programe, the Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council and the World Health Organization by E. & F. Spon
© 1997 WHO/UNEP, ISBN 0 419 22910 8
Case Study I* - The Ganga, India

Best regards,

Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie