New Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant at Ashok Gardens
In a move towards water supply backup and resilience, Ashok Gardens has completed its latest infrastructure addition: a cutting-edge Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant. This state-of-the-art plant represents a pivotal step in safeguarding against water shortages, particularly during times of BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) water cuts.
The plant capacity can generate upto 200 KLD of potable water in a day subject to water availability in the borewell. Earlier, only upto 100 KLD of potable water was available during the days of shortage of BMC water supply.
We as a society have high water usage, the water we receive from the MCGM just about meets our daily water requirements. However, there are many days wherein we face a water shortage due to water cuts or maintenance activities carried out by the MCGM. During these times society requires to procure potable water tankers to meet our daily water needs. However, since the entire surrounding area is short on water, tankers are hard to get and lot of effort goes into arranging them. Therefore, a need was felt to have a backup system ready to meet our daily water requirements at least partially and to compensate for the shortage in the water supply.
We have 6 active borewells in our building premises, which give upto 80KL water daily. This water is not potable and hence requires to be treated to make it potable. We have installed a Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant to treat the borewell water and make it potable. The capacity of the plant is 200KLD which means it can treat upto 2 Lakh litres of water daily (24 hrs time period) which is ~ 40% of society water requirement. We can also procure well water tankers, which are comparatively easy to procure and purify that water with our RO plant, thereby saving cost of procuring a potable water tanker.
The RO Plant is the state-of-the-art plant, which has latest available technology. The plant is fully automated and requires minimum human intervention. The Plant has various water purification techniques such as Membranes, Sand & Carbon filters, UV Lamp/tubes to purify water. The plant also has a pH balancing equipment to balance the pH levels of the water.
This water is mixed with our Domestic water supplied by the MCGM and sent to the flats of the residents for daily use.
With the installation of this plant, we hope to have better summers this year and many years to come.
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