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BENGALURU: Not just industries which release untreated effluent, apartments that are not treating sewage and letting it into Bellandur Lake will also face the music. Many do not have sewage connections to the underground drains but have inlets into stor m water drains. "These apartments and houses mushroomed around the lake in the last decade or so. BBMP officials told STOI that many individual houses, apartments and dwelling units with less than 10 or 15 units and hostels buildings for paying guests(PG) are equally responsible for polluting the lake as much as the industries. The presence of soap and detergent adds to the foam that fills the lake today," he said..