The Gaza Strip is a densely populated area with limited water and power resources. The groundwater aquifer is the only available source, with a deficit of 145 million cubic metres per year between demand and supply. Consequently, the quality of the aquifer has deteriorated and water desalination plants are being …
By 2026, Mumbai will be the largest consumer of water among coastal cities in the country. The city alone would account for 55% of the total water demand at that point, according to a report of Frost & Sullivan, an international consultant, released last year.Scary, but given the unbridled construction …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The 100-MLD (million litres a day) Minjur desalination plant, which is being inaugurated by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Saturday, is said to be the largest plant in the country. A senior official of the Chennai Metrowater says that there are some plants in Gujarat and their …
The desalination plant can supply 100 mn litres of potable water to Metrowater a day WATER at less than five paise per litre could become a reality for Metrowater, which has been grappling to bridge the supplydemand gap in safe drinking water in the city. Announcing the completion of the …
G Saravanan | ENS At least 1,750 fishers offered work as they plan to greet CM with black flags during his visit to Kattupalli SEVEN different companies located in and around the Kattupalli desalination plant near Minjur have promised to recruit 1,750 traditional fishermen from 15 hamlets, who lost their …
G Saravanan | ENS DEJECTED over the State gover nment's unfulfilled promise, fishermen living in 15 hamlets near Kattupalli have planned the show black flags to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi during his visit to launch the desalination plant at Minjur on July 31. "We have lost our livelihood after the …
Hyderabad, July 13: Water is becoming an endangered resource in many parts of the world today. More than 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water, and 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. Only one per cent of water on earth is drinkable, as 97 per cent is …
Hyderabad, July 13: Till a few years ago, electricity generation projects used to be set up close to where coal was available. They were called pit-head stations. But with increasing water shortage, power projects across the country are moving towards coastal areas thanks to new technology that desalinates water. More …
S Balakrishnan I TNN Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has approved the proposal to set up a desalination plant in the city to reduce the acute shortage of water. Chavan, who on Sunday visited the Rs 231.34-crore desalination plant set up by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) at Kattupalli …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Rs.9,000-crore Udangudi super critical thermal power project in Tuticorin district is all set to take off as the Union Environment and Forests (E&F;) Ministry's Expert Appraisal Committee has recommended the project to the Ministry for environmental clearance, which is critical to the project execution. Executed through …
C Shivakumar | ENS We won't allow the inlet and outlet pipe. This is a tourist spot and not an industrial area... Do you know, our ground water table has depleted. This is what we have been left with THE work on the Rs 670-crore Nemili desalination plant has hit …
Workers at Chilean copper-gold mine port facilities will soon be quenching their thirst with drinking water from an innovative new seawater reverse osmosis (RO) system supplied by Koch Membrane Systems (KMS).
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will form a committee with officials from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) to conduct a feasibility study on desalination as an option to end the city
Mumbai In a bid to expedite the setting up of desalination plants for sea-water, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has formed a committee comprising three scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Mumbai: South Mumbai MP Milind Deora has urged the Centre to fund the proposed desalination plant in Mumbai. In a letter written to prime minister Manmohan Singh, Deora has said that measures taken by the civic authority are not proving to be enough and more is needed to be done …
Every movement needs a poster boy. India's quest for securing its water needs could use Rajiv Mittal. At 49, the Managing Director of VA Tech Wabag, is one of the younger water entrepreneurs who are changing the way we treat the liquid that sustains our life. Mittal was sent to …
