CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The city of Taj Mahal, Agra, has become the first city in the country to have vacuum-based sewers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Agra has become the first city in India to have a vacuum-based sewers system. These vacuum-based sewers will be used in the city’s public places.

Detailed explanation-3: -Agra, Uttar Pradesh has become the first city in the country to have vacuum-based sewer systems. Agra, Uttar Pradesh has become the first city in the country to have vacuum-based sewer systems. These vacuums would be used in public places.

Detailed explanation-4: -Archaeological discoveries have shown that some of the earliest sewer systems were developed in the third millennium BCE in the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro in present-day Pakistan. The primitive sewers were carved in the ground alongside buildings.

Detailed explanation-5: -A vacuum sewer or pneumatic sewer system is a method of transporting sewage from its source to a sewage treatment plant. It maintains a partial vacuum, with an air pressure below atmospheric pressure inside the pipe network and vacuum station collection vessel.