Electronic City gets a new waste water treatment unit

BENGALURU: The 200-odd member units at the Electronic City will have a new sewage treatment plant (STP) for the entire township from Wednesday .The unit will treat 300 kilolitres of water a day.

The Electronic City Industrial Township Authority (Elcita), which is the urban local body for Electronic City , has built the plant. Elcita provides services such as water supply and sewage disposal for member industries, hotels and educational institutions.

According to NS Rama, CEO of Electronic City Industries Association (Elcia), the IT hub generates 6,000 kilolitres of waste water every day , about half of which is currently treated and reused. While large industries like Infosys, TCS and Wipro have their own treatment plants inside their campuses, smaller industries, hotels and educational institutions lacked the expertise or resources to run individual STPs.

The new STP will recycle the waste water collected from industries and the treated water will be used for construction and watering of trees, said Ramadas Kamath, nominated member of Elcita. Pollution Control Board chairman Lakshman will inaugurate the unit, the event of which will take place at 11 am near HCL in Electronic City phase I.

The inaugural event will be followed by an interactive session on safe disposal of used cooking oil and generation of bio fuels, led by experts from Eco Green fuels and Hasiru Dala.