To encourage the usage of treated water for construction activities, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board will lay separate pipelines covering an area of up to 500 metres from private apartments and the board’s sewage treatment plants (STP), to ensure continuous and adequate supply of water to construction sites.
Further, with an increasing demand for treated water, the BWSSB will also supply treated water to consumers within a five-kilometre radius of the STPs in the first phase. This water will be supplied through tankers for which the charges must be borne by the consumers.
This comes after builders, now mandated to use treated water for construction purposes and their borewells at construction sites commandeered by BWSSB, complained that fetching treated water was increasingly unviable.
