Fish wastewater menace back to haunt Mangaluru residents, road users

Instead of storing wastewater in retro-fitted tanks, transporters spill it along the road

The fish wastewater menace has again come to haunt the city residents as well as users of roads and highways with the beginning of the fishing season coupled with the near end of the Southwest Monsoon rains.

Trucks and mini goods vehicles that transport fish primarily from the Mangaluru Old Port (Bunder) spill the wastewater right from Bunder all along the trunk roads of the City and further on the National Highways. The impunity and lack of enforcement are visible where fish transporting trucks fitted with twin wastewater tanks that had almost stopped spilling wastewater during the last couple of years.