The Tashkent Shahar Suv Ta’minoti (government entity responsible for Tashkent water management) commented on a video footage circulating on social media showing colored wastewater being discharged into the Bozsu Canal.
Reportedly, this problem is not new. The Tashkent city has three wastewater treatment plants that receive household wastewater discharged from restrooms, bathtubs, showers, and kitchens.
They are equipped with biological treatment methods, but these technologies are not designed to filter chemical waste. Standards require that each company have its own on-site treatment plants that capture chemical impurities and dyes at the production level.
Reportedly, unfortunately, due to the high cost of operating such plants, some manufacturers opt to discharge wastewater directly into the sewer system. The colored wastewater visible in the footage comes specifically from textile factories. The treatment plants, unfortunately, are not designed to separate dyes and chemical impurities.
The company emphasized that the discharge of chemical waste negatively impacts the operation of the city's wastewater treatment plants.
We remind all manufacturing facilities that discharging such wastewater into sewer systems or into nature is unacceptable. Such actions contradict not only industrial, social, and environmental standards, but also the principles of humanity, Toshkent Shahar Suv Taminoti stated.
At a government meeting chaired by the president last March, plans were announced to gradually relocate industrial enterprises from the capital to the province, which "will create new opportunities for the Tashkent province.
Tashkent province governor Zoyir Mirzayev announced plans in September to relocate textile factories and over 50 tanneries from Tashkent to the province, as they were causing environmental damage.
Dozens of textile factories in Tashkent discharge wastewater, polluting the environment. A decision was made to relocate 35 of these factories to a specially constructed industrial complex. “The factories will operate, but without causing harm to the city, the governor noted.
