Desalination plants causing harm to environment: UN – New Delhi The fast-rising number of desalination plants worldwide – now almost 16,000, with capacity concentrated in the Middle East and North Africa – quench a growing thirst for freshwater but create a salty dilemma as well – how to deal with all the chemical – laden leftover brine In a UN – backed study made public on Monday, experts estimate the freshwater output capacity of desalination plants over 95 million cubic meters per day – comparable to 40 percent of the high season flow over Niagara Falls. (LINK) Desalination plants causing harm to environment: UN – New DelhiDME GmbH2019-01-15T13:43:38+01:00
Recycling water Chennai’s only hope – Chennai CHENNAI: Chennai’s water woes are legendary. That 2019 too marks another year of crisis is sadly little cause for surprise. The Northeast Monsoon failed in 2018. There is only enough water in the city’s reservoirs to meet drinking water needs for the next five months. With erratic rainfall patterns becoming the new normal and Chennai’s groundwater having been exploited to dangerous depths, is there a long-term solution to the almost perennial crisis? (LINK). Recycling water Chennai’s only hope – ChennaiDME GmbH2019-01-07T11:17:26+01:00
Essel Projects to set up Rs 700-cr desalination plant in Gujarat – Gujarat – India The Gujarat government on Saturday announced the setting up of State’s largest desalination plant at Jamnagar with daily capacity to treat 100 million litres per day (MLD) of sea water. An agreement is signed between Gujarat Water Infrastructure Limited and Essel Infraprojects Limited for the Rs 700-crore project to be developed under Public Private Partnership (PPP). Chief Minister Vijay Rupani termed it a historical development, which will make drought a matter of history for the State. (LINK). Essel Projects to set up Rs 700-cr desalination plant in Gujarat – Gujarat – IndiaDME GmbH2018-11-19T22:48:35+01:00
Israeli tech can assuage India’s worst water crisis – India NITI Aayog, the policy think-tank arm of Government of India, published a report titled, “Composite Water Management Index” on the current state of water usage patterns and availability in India. The executive summary of the report starts by stating, “India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and millions of lives and livelihoods are under threat”. Despite the geographical heterogeneity across India, water scarcity is a recurring issue. The report notes that about 600 million Indians are living in extreme water stress and about […] Israeli tech can assuage India’s worst water crisis – IndiaDME GmbH2018-11-18T22:17:52+01:00
NLC India keen to take over IL&FS thermal power generation units – India Economic Times NLC is likely to take over two thermal units with a total capacity of 1200MW belonging to the Centre-managed IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Company Limited situated in Cuddalore district. The bail-out comes in the wake of IL&FS facing a financial crisis. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu power minister P Thangamani, energy secretary Md. Nasimuddin and Tangedco chairman Vikram Kapur called on coal minister Piyush Goyal and energy minister R K Singh in New Delhi on Thursday and raised the issue of NLC taking over the two units. NLC India keen to take over IL&FS thermal power generation units – IndiaDME GmbH2018-11-13T11:59:21+01:00
MRPL reasserts its green credentials with Karnataka’s first desalination plant – Karnataka – India Come March 2020, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) will reassert its green credentials by commissioning Karnataka’s first desalination plant. Work on the Rs 600 crore 5MGD reverse osmosis plant has already begun on at Tannirbhavi hear here and will help the state’s only refinery reduce its fresh water intake to the bare minimum and for times when the Nethravathi is full and flowing to the brim. (LINK). MRPL reasserts its green credentials with Karnataka’s first desalination plant – Karnataka – IndiaDME GmbH2018-11-09T13:56:23+01:00
World’s first self-powered desalination plant by NIOT coming up in Lakshadweep – Chennai – India Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) is setting up the world’s first self-powered desalination plant using the technology of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) in Kavaratti Island in Lakshadweep. Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan laid the foundation stone for the project on Monday. The OTEC is a method to generate power from the difference in temperatures between the surface and the deep sea. As we go deeper and deeper into the sea, the temperature becomes colder. In tropical countries such […] World’s first self-powered desalination plant by NIOT coming up in Lakshadweep – Chennai – IndiaDME GmbH2018-11-07T15:48:26+01:00
Madras High Court puts on hold commissioning of desalination plant in Chennai; postpones hearing till 1 October – Chennai – India The Madras High Court has restrained Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board from issuing work order to successful bidder of the contract for construction of third desalination plant at Nemmeli till further orders. Justice V Bharathidasan gave the interim order on Tuesday on the petition by Suez International, a French company seeking to declare it as the only technically qualified bidder in the tender floated by the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) for construction of the 150 MLD plant. The petitioner also sought the court to […] Madras High Court puts on hold commissioning of desalination plant in Chennai; postpones hearing till 1 October – Chennai – IndiaDME GmbH2018-09-27T09:04:56+02:00
100 MLD desalination plant to come up at Dahej – Dahej – India A desalination plant will be commissioned to cater the growing water requirement in the Petroleum Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) located at Dahej. The plant will draw water from the Arabian Sea, desalinate and purify it to make it potable and suitable for industrial consumption. Sources in the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) said that the tender for setting up the plant will soon be floated. (LINK). 100 MLD desalination plant to come up at Dahej – Dahej – IndiaDME GmbH2018-09-24T17:12:42+02:00
Why Goa needs desalination plants – Goa – India An unprecedented water supply crisis is developing. The environment department needs to immediately begin work to identify 20 hectares plots one each in north and south Goa and call for global tenders to build two ultramodern mega desalination plants. A provision of `1000 crores need to be made in the budget estimates, 2019-20 for two plants costing `500 crores each with capacity of 100 million liters per day (MLD) enough to augment and supply water to one million people. (LINK). Why Goa needs desalination plants – Goa – IndiaDME GmbH2018-09-23T19:07:12+02:00