Thane civic body makes it mandatory for every new housing society to have its own water recycling plant
[The municipal corporation has proposed to ensure all fresh housing proposals with a collective built-up area of 20,000 sq feet or 2,000sqm to develop their private Sewage Treatment Plant (STP).] Water crisis in lake city may soon come to an end, as the Thane Municipal Corporation is planning to implement a new rule under which all the new small housing projects like the ones coming up in parts of the old city, Kalwa or Mumbra would boast of an independent water treatment and recycling plants. The municipal corporation has proposed to ensure all fresh housing proposals with a collective built-up area of 20,000 sq feet or 2,000sqm to develop their private Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). As per the proposal that will be tabled before the civic general body on Monday, the administration is aiming towards effective water management by ensuring waste water is treated and reused thereby conserving the costly piped drinking water provided by the civic administr...