BMC gets ready to recycle water………Sayli Udas Mankikar
DROP BY DROP Municipal body to set up two recycling plants to treat water for reuse
DROP BY DROP Municipal body to set up two recycling plants to treat water for reuse
If you want to paylesser water bills in the future, make sure your municipal corporation recycles sewage water for non-potable use.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is already on the ball. In ayear, Mumbai will have two recycling plants that will help recycle 250 million litres of water everyday.
The Ghatkopar plant will have are cycling capacity of 150 MLD and the Bhandup complex will have a capacity of 100 MLD.
“If this works well and we have demand for recycled water, we might think of setting up a separate pipeline to supply this water to the end user,” said Additional Municipal Commissioner Anil Diggikar who is heading the project.
The MaharashtraWater Resources Regulatory Authority has said that if municipal bodies treat sewage water to make it usable for irrigation or gardening, the rate will be slashed by 75 per cent of the applicable water tariff. If the water in the limits of a municipal corporation limits is found polluted because it is untreated, it will be penalised. The state water resources department will fix this penalty when it fixes the tariff later this month.
Mumbai produces 2,600 million litres of sewage a day but noneof it is recycled. Half of this is treated while the rest is simply let out into the sea.
Cities with a huge population use almost double the amount of water consumed in rural areas. An average Mumbai it uses at least 90 litres a day as opposed to the average of 45 liters per person per day in rural areas.
“Considering the impending water crisis in the state it is only fair that sewage water is treated and used for nonpotable purposes,”said Ajit Nimbalkar,exchief secretary and chairman of the water resources regulatory authority.
In July,the state will fix new bulk tariff rates for agricultural,domestic and industrial users.