Sewerage

SOFIA, BULGARIA

The Environment Ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of a large biological waste treatment facility and sewage network which will serve the municipalities of Rafina-Pikermi and Spata-Artemida in eastern Attica.

The Regional Authority of the Northern Aegean has given the Ministry of Migration Policy 30 days to clean up the overcrowded Moria hot spot for migrants and refugees on the island of Lesvos, or face closure.

Sofia residents drink the best water in Bulgaria, with water in Sofia ranked sixth in quality in Europe, said Vasil Trenev, executive director of Sofiyska Voda. The company presented to the media its "ninja turtles" employees, who take care of the maintenance of the sewerage network. It turns out that the underground collectors in which people can walk have a total length of about 600 km.

On Thursday and Friday at Lavrio in Attica, 27 partners, including some leading European universities, will be presenting the HYDROUSA project, which is getting off the drawing board and into the field this month.

The European Court of Justice has fined Greece 5 million euros with an additional penalty of 3.28 million euros for every six months that it delays payment its failure to comply with waste water treatment regulations in the Thriasio Plain in western Attica.

Japan’s sewerage industry has found a way to clean up its dirty and smelly image: elaborately designed and colorful manhole covers with 12,000 local varieties nationwide -- including, of course, a Hello Kitty design.Appealing to a Japanese love of detail and “kawaii” (“cute”), bespoke manhole covers adorn the streets of 1,700 towns, cities and villages across Japan and have spawned a collection

The possible health impacts from the chemical that mixed in the sewage system and hospitalized hundreds of locals on Dec. 25 in Istanbul’s industrial Tuzla district on the Anatolian side has stirred controversy regarding the cause and the penalty for this hazard.

Hundreds of locals were hospitalized on Dec. 25 after being affected by chemical waste that got mixed in the sewage system and caused pungent smells that alarmed locals and officials in Istanbul’s industrial Tuzla district on the city’s Anatolian side.

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has announced that lifeguards in its fire brigade department have saved 4,800 people in the province over the course of this summer, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 20.