If all goes according to plan, Ministers and bureaucrats working at the Delhi Secretariat may soon be served water that is produced from treated sewage.
The Delhi Jal Board recently launched its first “toilet-to-tap” initiative, where sewage from the Keshopur wastewater treatment plant is converted into drinking quality water.
At the launch of the Sujala Dhara pilot project on July 9, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was among those who drank the treated water.
The plant is capable of producing 25 million litres of drinking water a year, but what exactly will be done with the treated output is unclear for now. Among the plans in the pipeline is supplying the Secretariat with the treated water.
“We are considering installing a dispensing unit at the Secretariat so the water produced from the plant can be utilised. We will look at other possibilities of supplying the water,” said DJB chairperson Kapil Mishra on Friday.
The plant, set up at a cost of Rs.55 lakh, was constructed by NGO Sana, which will carry out awareness programmes to get people to warm up to the idea of drinking water sourced from sewage. The plant screens raw sewage before pumping it through a filter made of five layers of materials, including earthworms, cotton extracts, bacteria, organic sand and pebbles.
The treated sewage is then chlorinated via a membrane system that makes it ready to drink.
