Indian Politics & Policy Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2018 | Page 103
Indian Politics & Policy
water is the best, but there was a close
second with Kejriwal water. The poorest
quality was the water coming from
the large conventional STP that they
call tanker water.
In other words, there are two
pipelines supplying water to the depot.
One brings drinking water from
the DJB’s water treatment plant and the
other brings treated wastewater from
the pilot project that uses earthworms
and filters. The pipeline water from the
pilot project is the most important, as
it is the water used to wash the buses
in the depot. On the day of our interview,
there was a discussion about quality,
with some explaining that clearer is
better and that it must be without smell
and bad taste to be useful beyond horticulture.
In the following discussion,
NM and AK are the researchers and the
others are employees at the bus depot. 11
UK: This is the govt. order based on
court order ... and of NGT too ... they
forbid us so we stopped this bore well,
as in our department we need to issue
foreclosure, we did the same and sent
the report. Then we had this STP pipeline
and then this water supply started.
You know, previously we were fully
dependent upon tanker-waters. In two
days, we had to use three tankers.
NM: 30,000 l water.
UK: Yes, as we have 125 buses ... so
around 45 buses get washed daily ... we
do deep cleaning means cleaning from
inside and washing from outside too.
So we cannot wash all the buses in one
day ...
AK: So he said that he saved groundwater?
Now no more use of groundwater?
NM: No ... So you don’t use groundwater
at all?
UK: I will show you ... we have stopped
our submersible ... because there is the
strict order about this.
NM: So, now you water your gardens
with STP water only?
UK: Yes.
NM: And you wash your buses with
this water only?
UK: We wash our vehicles 100% with
this water only.
NM: So, if someday there is no piped
water then what do you do for gardening?
UK: In that case, we use remaining
tanker water. After washing the vehicles
if water remains in the tanker we use it
for gardening ... you know tanker water
is not as clean as the STP pipeline water
... I will show you the waters.
NM: From where do you get this tanker
water.
UK: That water also comes from DJB
Keshopur but from a different plant. It
is not filtered water. So, what have you
seen in the plant, tanker water does not
get filtered.
AK: So ... that water comes from the
big plant, not through the membrane
filter ...
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