Bengaluru: The Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has invited tenders to set up water recycling units at KSRTC bus depots across the state.
There around 83 depots in 15 districts, out of which 26 are already recycling water and saving around 20,000 litres of water every day.
Tenders have been invited to set up such units in the remaining 54 depots. Once the tender is finalised, work will be taken up at the earliest. A senior officer from KSRTC, mentioned that these recycling units would help save lakhs of litres of water, which would otherwise go down the drain.
He said, “On a daily basis lakhs of litres of water, which is used to clean the buses, goes waste. A recycling unit will help save and reuse this water.”
He pointed out that around 220 litres of water is used to wash a bus and every depot has around 100 buses operating, so around 22, 000 litre of water is used daily in a depot. “We will set up units with a capacity to treat 20,000 litres of water every day and we will treat it twice, to maintain the parameters suggested by the authorities concerned. We hope to save around 90 per cent water.”
A KSRTC depot manager in the city, who did not want to be named, said, “It is time we come up with advanced technologies for saving water, by taking into the consideration the prevailing water crisis in the state or even in the country. By installing such units, we are also setting an example to other government and private companies.”
The BBMP should make recycling units mandatory even for automobile garages, as it would help in saving water, he added.
