Recycle grey water, get extra FSI: BMC
Faced with the possibility of water shortage and compulsion of meeting certain conditions to avail funds from the Centre, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to revive an old proposal of making it compulsory for all new constructions to have grey water recycling plants.
According to the civic officials, the grey water rules are mainly targeted at new developments, in which the developers will be asked to have their own grey water recycling plants at new constructions having more than 60 flats. In lieu of this, they will be provided the Floor Space Index (FSI) equivalent to what is used in the construction of these plants. The civic body will not issue a work completion certificate, unless the new residential projects having over 2,000 square metres area have this facility.
“We are also planning to make grey water recycling plants mandatory for old societies, who have a suction tank and overhead tank with them,” said a senior civic official on the condition of anonymity.
By using these measures, the civic body is expected to save up to 10 per cent of potable water, which is used for other purposes like gardening, cleaning and washing. To get funds for projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru Nati-onal Urban Renewal Mission, the BMC needs to recycle grey water and stop wastage of drinking water.
This has prompted the BMC to revive grey water bylaws, which were prepared in 2008, but later overlooked due to administrative apathy. “The grey water draft by-laws will be put up for public suggestions and objections in the next week. Citizens will be given a month’s time to send in their feedback,” said Prakash Kadam, deputy municipal (engineering services). The BMC has undertaken a pilot project at its staff quarters in Dadar, where it has constructed a plant to recycle 2,000 litres of water daily.
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