The Cities and Towns initiative sees, in wastewater, an opportunity to create greener climate-resilient cities. Treated wastewater can be used for all of Bengaluru’s greening, in the water-intensive construction industry, and to recharge aquifers. In small towns, we aim to make the urban growth trajectory less freshwater-intensive.
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Wastewater Reuse
One of the factors contributing to Bengaluru’s vulnerability to extreme weather events is that huge quantities of wastewater flow into the city’s lakes, water bodies and storm water channels, polluting it and hindering its ability to act as an effective buffer against floods. Treating and reusing wastewater has the dual benefit of ensuring that stormwater channels and lakes don’t remain waterlogged and contaminated, and can also cut down on our use of freshwater, a fast depleting resource. Not only could treated wastewater be used for all of Bengaluru’s greening, it could also be used for construction (a water-intensive industry), and if treated properly, to recharge aquifers and store water in lakes. We saw an opportunity for potential impact and turned our focus to water recycling as the entry point to creating greener and more climate-resilient cities. |
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We are looking for a senior statistician with 4-5 years of experience to help make knowledge, data and tools more accessible to the larger ecosystem
We are looking for a senior statistician with 4-5 years of experience to help make knowledge, data and tools more accessible to the larger ecosystem
Decentralised sewage management is being promoted to address the sewage treatment gap in Indian cities.
A framework for exploring industrial pathways to water sustainability in urban and semi-urban India, faced with rapidly-declining aquifers
CSEI’s Cities and Towns sums up five key learnings on wastewater treatment and reuse from the five-day IWA conference held in Chennai in January.
Amid an increase in construction costs, treated wastewater could be an inexpensive, sustainable alternative to this industry’s water needs
In September we talked about visions for wastewater reuse. We discussed where Bengaluru’s water was going, how to put flood water to good use and how to turn Bengaluru’s apartments green.
Why was treated wastewater going unused in Bengaluru despite the mandate that apartments with more than 20 units have to install decentralised STPs and adhere to the Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) policy?
