Thanks Ala!Yes, I think that ...

Thanks Ala! Yes, I think that public awareness campaigns can help reduce the number of illegal linkages if solid waste and sewage are sufficiently separated in the public's mind so that sewers are no longer considered a repository for everything that is undesirable. The actual acts of illegal linkage seem to be more reactionary than intentional: the head drainage engineers and government consultants that I've spoken with believe that it is actually government engineers themselves who are creating illegal linkages to assuage angry residents who have sewage backwashing into their homes. If we can lower the amount of blockages through reduced solid waste incursion, that may sufficiently reduce the pressure on ward engineers to stop them from creating such linkages. Another thing that may help is encouraging dialogue between drainage designers/central drainage department engineers and ward engineers. There is presently little communication between those who are designing and those who are maintaining, leading to numerous discrepancies in how the sewerage system is understood and treated.