Problems and Perspectives of the Urban Sewage System: A Geographical Review

The present study deals with the problems of urban sewage system and trying to find out the geographical perspectives behind the same. For this assessment, previous literature has studied and analysed. Basically, the urban sewage system deals with the collection, treatment and disposal of the generated wastewater. Now a day, the continuous growth of population and the process of urbanization crating overload on the available service of the sewage system. The blockage, clogging, backwater, overflow etc are the major concern of the same. Resulted, many health issues, environmental pollution and hazards within the urban places. Dynamic nature of the city, lack of public awareness, challenging physical set-up of the region and sewer construction, maintenance and cleaning issues, inappropriate collection and treatment, poor economy etc are the major geographical perspectives of the urban sewage system issues.