BMC to treat sewage water for washing, other purposes

Civic body chief says plan afoot to start work on treatment plants from October

In order to protect the marine life and stopping the sea from getting dirtier due to sewage water and floodwaters, the civic body will resort to old proposal of treating the sewage water.

Commenting on the floodwater and sewage water getting drained into the sea and harming the creatures, civic body chief Ajoy Mehta said the floodwaters would be treated at sewage water treatment plant (STP), under the Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project Phase II (MSDP II), and use for various purposes other than drinking.

“There were reports of about 37,000 million litres of rainwater flushing into the

About 37,000 million litres of rainwater flushes into the sea. Come October, the floodwater treat will be treated and recycled at a plant. The water produced will then be used for non-potable purposes like car, train or bus wash and gardening among others

–Ajoy Mehta, BMC commissioner

sea. Come October, the floodwater treat will be treated and recycled at a plant, one of the largest in the country. The water will then be used for non-potable purposes like car, train or bus wash and gardening among others. The water will not be drained into the sea,” said Mehta.

Under Phase II of the sewage disposal project, Brihanmumbai Mumbai Corporation (BMC) had planned seven treatment plants, in areas including Colaba, Worli, Dharavi, Versova, Ghatkopar, and Bhandup. Once ready, the plant will have a capacity of generating up to 1,800 litres of tertiary water, which will be 50 per cent of what Mumbai uses today. According to the plan, the work on all the water treatment facilities will complete by 2025.

Mumbai needs 3,500 million litres per day (MLD) of drinking water while 2,700 MLD is sewage, which is released into the Arabian Sea.