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 …
Mumbai municipality to induce rains; activists call it a sham torrential rains pounded Mumbai in the last week of June, but failed to help the city tide over the severe water shortage. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is now making frantic efforts to ease the crisis. On July 15, …
IBM is pushing ahead into providing technology services to manage water, a market $10 billion market that the company sees growing quickly. "This to me is an area that's really going to explode in the next three to five years," said Sharon Nunes, who heads IBM's Big Green Innovations initiative. …
Chief Secretary reviews status of the project work GETTING READY: A view of one of the units at the desalination plant near Minjur that is expected to be commissioned in October. CHENNAI: Treated water from the desalination plant at Kattupalli near Minjur will be supplied to the city from early …
Nemili unit to have daily capacity of 100 million litres. The desalination plant at Minjur near Chennai R. Balaji Chennai, July 31 even groups of Indian and international infrastructure companies are bidding for the Rs 950-crore desalination project to come up to the south of Chennai. According to sources, the …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) has initiated research and development projects on desalination and water purification technologies so that sea water could be converted into potable water by using atomic energy. Union minister of state for science and technology and earth sciences (independent charges) Prithviraj Chavan said, "The sea …
Mumbai: After the state government's decision to carry out a feasibility study to decide whether desalinating sea water is an option to fight the water woes of Mumbai, experts say the membrane technology using is the best possible method that can be used to desalinate sea water. The technology, using …
Economic stimulus cash flowing into the water sector will make this nascent $400 billion market an attractive alternative to traditional equity markets, a panel of water market experts said on Wednesday. Water shortages are on the rise, stemming from soaring demand, growing populations and rising living standards, and compounded by …
City District Nazim Multan Mian Faisal Mukhtar said that the city would be hit by a water crisis by 2011, if work on alternate resources was not started. He said that the available water resources would not be sufficient for the needs of the city by 2010, and that Multan …
Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on Monday singed two memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with a French firm to conduct a comprehensive study on the development of desalination and water treatment plants at Karachi Port and Port Qasim. The MoUs were signed by KPT Chairperson Nasreen Haque …
The biggest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, north of San Diego, can begin construction by year's end after a six-year effort to win regulators' approval, the developer said on Thursday. The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve permit revisions for the …
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: The 30-km pipeline from the upcoming 100 million litres a day desalination plant near Minjur to Red Hills has been laid by the Chennai Metrowater recently. However, a portion of construction work of the plant is yet to be completed. Metrowater officials said the pipeline covering about …
The Irrigation network of Sindh is very important and it is the utmost need of hour to properly maintain all structures, canals, distributaries and channel paths. This was stated by Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah while presiding over a meeting regarding revamping/rehabilitation of Irrigation & Drainage system in …
A SEMINAR held recently at the Jatiya Press Club has revealed that some 80 per cent of drinking water supplied by WASA in Dhaka city is misused. In other words, water is wasted in some forms. When it has become a familiar sight in different parts of the city that …
This report provides an up-to-date assessment of water resources across Europe with the key objectives of: describing spatial patterns and trends in water availability and abstraction, identifying those regions subject to the greatest water stress and the detrimental impacts that ensue; increasing awareness of the challenges of water scarcity and …
Nagercoil: A group of persons belonging to a non-governmental organization based at Nagercoil have designed a technology for the setting up of desalination plants in the coastal areas of the State particularly in Tuticorin, Ramanathapuram and Kanyakumari districts. According to Felix A. Rayan, a former United Nations Advisor on Development …
CHENNAI: Chennai Petroleum Corporation (CPCL), part of Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL), has commissioned a reverse osmosis-based desalination plant along the Bay of Bengal, to make its Manali refinery self-sufficient in water supply and usage. The plant, built at a cost of Rs 231.34 crore in Tiruvallur district near Chennai, will …
K.Lakshmi Dredging work has been put on hold till the end of northeast monsoon The pipeline laying work from Minjur to Madhavaram pumping station completed The work to lay 10-km pipeline from Madhavaram to Red Hills is pending on a few stretches TAKING MORE TIME: Work on the pipelines that …
T.S. Subramanian It will cater for both the nuclear plant and NPCIL township All set for pure supply: The desalination plant at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site. In the background is the huge reactor building of the first unit (1000 MWe) which will be commissioned this year. CHENNAI: A …
Indian Maritime University inaugurated Launch: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi presenting souvenirs to Union Minister for Shipping and Road Transport T.R. Baalu (left) and Union Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation G.K.Vasan, at the inauguration of Maritime University in Chennai on Wednesday. CHENNAI: Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi on Wednesday urged …
