BCIL Collective is Water-Wise
The road surfaces at this campus are a combination of hard top, to cater for wear and tear from vehicle movement, and soft surfaces that reduce the heating of this surface.
Not a drop of water that falls on this campus as rain is drained out of the campus. A network of surface drains leads the entire water incident on the roads into a series of shallow percolation pits and wells. All the rain water from the terrace level is led down into a rainwater tank, and supplements the domestic water need during the rainy months.
The water needed for the campus is sourced from an existing borewell in the site. During the rainy months, the campus will be supplemented by rain water, collected from the terraces, collected in a rain water tank. The total annual rainwater harvested is to the tune of around 8 million litres of water.
The water is then treated and then pumped up using a Hydropneumatic Pumping System, HPS. This system also means that there are no overhead tanks at BCIL Collective. In a lifecycle analysis The Company did, we found that the HPS costs less monies and energy than the use of water tanks.
Yes, we all would like to reduce the amount of water that we use everyday, for bathing, washing clothes, vegetables or dishes. But we are at a loss because we do not know what to measure this consumption by. BCIL Collective has found an interests option for you: use of ‘water conscience meters’ in one washroom and in the kitchen which display, online, the water you run down the drain.