Assessment of Some Aspects of Provisioning Sewerage Systems: A Case Study of Urban Agglomerations in Ganga River Basin Saurabh Shukla and Vinod Tare Contents Introduction ....................................................................................... 2 Cost Estimates of Sewerage Systems: Conventional Approach ................................. 4 Collection of Information ..................................................................... 5 Final Cost Estimation ......................................................................... 5 Cost Estimates of Sewerage Systems: Other Approaches ....................................... 6 Sewerage Network ............................................................................ 6 Sewage Pumping .............................................................................. 7 Sewage Treatment ............................................................................. 7 Methodology ...................................................................................... 8 Estimation of Capex and Opex of Sewerage Network ....................................... 8 Estimation of Capex and Opex for Sewage Pumping ........................................ 10 Estimation of Capex and Opex of Sewage Treatment ....................................... 10 Findings ........................................................................................... 11 Sewerage Network ............................................................................ 11 Cost of Sewage Pumping ..................................................................... 17 Cost of Sewage Treatment .................................................................... 17 Cost Estimation of Complete Sewerage System ................................................. 20 Estimated Costs of Provisioning Sewerage Systems in Major Urban Agglomerations in Ganga River Basin ............................................................................... 21 Benefits of Provisioning Sewerage Systems ..................................................... 23 Discussion ......................................................................................... 28 Conclusion ........................................................................................ 31 References ........................................................................................ 32 S. Shukla (*) Faculty of Civil Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India e-mail: saurabh.shukla2020@gmail.com V. Tare Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India e-mail: vinod@iitk.ac.in # Springer International Publishing AG 2018 C. M. Hussain (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Materials Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_3-1 1