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 …
Following a visit by civic officials to Chennai that has set up a 100 mld plant to treat sea water with the help of the Centre, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) also now wants the Centre
Typically open-sea water intake structures are constructed in the shallow areas where sea water depth is in the range of 3m up to 10m. Due to this SWRO plant with open intake will have source water with high debris, suspended solids and aquatic organisms requiring a very elaborate pretreatment system.
With approximately one in eight people, or about 884 million people worldwide, lacking access to safe water supplies, seawater deasalination continues to emerge as the most viable solution to the growing water crisis.
Mumbai Mumbai will have its first desalination plant in the coming months, but the BMC project, costing more than Rs 15 crore, will not be used to treat water for drinking purposes. The civic administration will adopt an expensive project for desalination. However, the money spent might not be worth …
The Sindh government has decided to install at least 29 more Reverse Osmosis (Water Desalination) plants to ensure potable water for the local population of coalfields areas of the province, it is learnt. The decision was taken at a meeting held recently under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary (Development) …
CHENNAI: VA Tech Wabag, an Indian multinational company involved in water treatment projects, in partnership with Israel-based IDE Technologies, has been awarded the contract for executing India
Even sea water, which is in abundance around the city, may not be able help overcome the crisis. Most of the civic engineers are not betting on the realisation of sea water desalination plants. Chief minister Ashok Chavan had announced plans to set the desalination plants rolling within six months …
There have been bad seasons before but poor monsoon has left the city facing its worst water crisis. As tempers rise and protests grow, Mumbai has enough to last just another 200 days Desperate times call for desperate measures, and these are desperate times for Mumbai. Delayed monsoon and poor …
THE Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched in December 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in keeping with its Common Minimum Programme. It was a form of reform that urban areas in the country desperately needed before they spiralled into haphazard and over-flowing cities. The …
Mumbai As the city reels under acute water crisis, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is studying feasibility of desalination plants in Mumbai. The civic body has long been planning to construct desalination plants to make sea water potable but repeatedly put it off citing high costs. While rate of the …
M G Devasahayam Seawater desalination finds no mention in the Chennai Second Master Plan. Desalination plants are energy guzzlers and their cost of production would be high. Yet, the government is aggressively pursuing these projects CHENNAI Second Master Plan's (SMP) mission statement on water reads thus: "Provision of water supply …
MUMBAI: Faced with an unprecedented water crisis, the BMC is considering different options to be able to sail smoothly next year. Not only has it cleaned and repaired its borewells and dug wells, but it will also set up filtration plants at those spots. According to officials, the wells will …
