Madhumita Mukherjee

In: UA Magazine 10 - Appropriate (Micro) Technologies for Urban Agriculture

In India, night soil and wastewater reuse in agriculture is a traditional practice followed in irrigation for centuries. West Bengal is the pioneering state. The use of municipal wastewater to fertilize ponds is now perhaps the largest wastewater fed aquaculture system in the world in Kolkata, and the periurban area, especially where wastewater fish farming is practiced, supports the livelihood of a large number of people through waste recycling and natural resource use.