Hussain Sagar water to be recycled, sold
Hyderabad: According to the sources, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA)’s Buddha Purnima Project environmental wing will sell eight million litres of non-potable water per day through its three filling stations that will be constructed on Necklace Road in the near future.
Better utilizing the excess water from two Sewerage Treatment Plants that flows into the lake daily, this project has been planned. The same will become functional, very shortly.
According to the member environment, BPP-HMDA R.P. Khajuria, the non-potable treated water can be used for irrigation, construction, landscaping, gardening and washing purpose.
According to the BPP officials, of those many proposals, they considered the South Central Railway, which has also come forward to accept 1.10 MLD recycled water (0.6 MLD at Nampally railway station and 0.5 MLD at Kacheguda station).
The following are the details of Recycled Water availability:
- Tanker filling stations : 3 on Necklace Road
- Filling points at each station : 4 (total tanker filling point 12)
- Volume of each tanker : 10,000 litres
- Maximum water flow at each filling point: 69 cubic metre per hour)
- Time taken to fill a tanker : 10 minutes
- Tanker filling capacity of each filling point: 4 tankers per hour (filling capacity at each station is 16 making it 48 tankers per hour for all centres combined)
- Water consumed for tanker filling: 480m3 per hour
- Total recycled water supplied through tankers over 8 hours - 3840 m3/8 hrs
