Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) will supply treated water for construction projects in tankers from Wednesday. The Board has hired 26 water tankers each of 24,000 litres capacity for the purpose.
Amidst the water crisis, BWSSB banned the use of potable water (from borewells) for construction purposes and commandeered all borewells at construction sites, mandating them to use treated water. However, the initiative did not take off as builders complained that they neither have tankers nor found any on hire amidst the crisis and the transportation charges made using treated water unviable.
Following this, BWSSB partnered with Bangalore Apartments’ Federation (BAF) allowing them to sell 50% of treated water generated in their over 3,500 Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs), making sources of treated water spatially more distributed across the city. BWSSB has also announced that they will draw a pipeline of upto 500 metres from nearby apartments to construction sites to ensure reliable supply of treated water, even as they will supply treated water in tankers themselves within a radius of 5 km. These initiatives have driven the demand for treated water, sources in the BWSSB said.
