The treated water from the Colaba Sewage Treatment Plant will be supplied to the Cricket Club of India (CCI) at Churchgate for maintaining its sports fields and greenery. This water will be sold at INR 21 per kiloliter, generating about INR 15 lakh in revenue for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Under the Mumbai Sewerage Project, the BMC has planned sewage treatment plants at eight locations, with the Colaba facility operational since 2020. The plant has a capacity of 37 million liters per day, of which 10 million liters undergo tertiary treatment. After tertiary treatment, this purified water can be reused for non-potable purposes such as construction, gardening, and cleaning. Selling treated water helps the civic body recover operational costs and reduces the use of drinking water for such activities.
The rate of INR 21 per kiloliter was previously applied when supplying treated water to the Mumbai Maritime Board in 2020 for tetrapod installation work, and later to contractors working on the coastal road project.
At present, the Navy receives 0.5–1 million liters per day from the Colaba plant. CCI has now requested treated water for eight months each year (excluding monsoon). For the next three years, CCI will require around 1 lakh liters per day, from which the BMC expects to earn INR 63,000 per month, totaling INR 1.5 lakh over three years.
A formal agreement will be executed between BMC and CCI for this supply, with several conditions laid down by the municipal corporation that CCI must comply with.
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