the cost for putting water pipeline to circulate this treated water is rs 80 crore he said indirectly indicating the financial intricacies involved in the matter waghmare said also the tertiary treatment to make the treated water potable was even more costly proposition civic commissioner dinesh waghmare said that nmmc had plans to promote its use for industries and cold storages along transthane corridor the civic body now has plans to convert green garbage collected in apmc market yard into compressed natural gas cng at the apmc premises itself nmmc administration also admitted that it could not achieve garbage segregation due to lukewarm response from the citizens who were supposed to segregate garbage at their homes around 200 mld of treated water is generated by six sewage treatment plants stps that were built at a cost of about rs 500 crore the city recently ranked as third cleanest in india pours 190 mld million liters per day of treated water into the sea daily this treated water can easily be used for commercial purposes such as gardening and cleaning by around 8 lakh people almost half of citys population currently a very small number of housing societies and the municipality are using treated water also a poor response from residents in segregating garbage has marred nmmcs efficiency for converting garbage into compost and its plans to generate energy from the waste navi mumbai the rest is pumped into the thane creek as the water in stps treated with an advanced technology currently has no takers yet said nmmc engineers but the city is already pumping pure drinking water for commercial use which takes up around 40 of the citys total usage of 370 mld around 10 mld of treated water is used by the civic body for watering plants on road dividers and in some housing societies for gardening and cleaning it affected the civic bodys plans to generate energy from dry garbage and also its efficiency in producing compost sources said that residents may not like the idea of using tertiarytreated water for drinking purposes and hence its a remote possibility in terms of revenue this 190 mld of treated water can fetch revenue of around rs 150 crore every year if distributed to commercial and industrial users along thanebelapur corridor by setting up new rs 80 crore pipeline