Water supply to south Chennai to be disrupted on August 23 – India
Water supply to parts of south Chennai will be disrupted till Tuesday evening as work has been taken up to repair a damaged pipeline in the 110 mld desalination plant at Nemmeli.
Perur desal plant delayed; no new bids – Chennai
Metrowater’s 400MLD desalination plant at Perur near Nemmeli is yet to materialize.
Tenders seeking to build the plant were called in 2020 but, an RTI reply has revealed, a contractor has not been chosen in the last two years.
The Metrowater board has also not called for fresh tenders. Activists think it could be because the DMK does not want to give the project to contractors identified by the AIADMK government.
The delay has prolonged the wait for water for an estimated 22 lakh people living in southern parts […]
Wabag secures repeat order worth Rs 430 crore from RIL
VA Tech Wabag has secured an order towards engineering, procurement and construction of a 53mld desalination plant at Jamnagar, Gujarat, worth about Rs 430 crore from Reliance Industries.
The EPC scope of work under this RIL order includes design, engineering, procurement, supply, construction, erection, pre-commissioning, commissioning and performance guarantee test run of the sea water reverse osmosis plant, slated to be built in the premises of RIL’s refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat.
Wabag has already executed a 24mld SWRO plant in the same premises.
This plant which […]
Ruptured part of Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam Radial Road caves in – Chennai
A section of the 200 Feet Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam Radial Road near Periya Eri caved in on Saturday due to a rupture in a desalination pipe going underneath the bridge.
Highways department officials said there was a rupture in the pipe underneath the radial road and it was fixed within a few hours.
“This caused only a very minor cave-in. We fixed it in a few hours once we got the news on Saturday,” an official said.
Gujarat sets up desalination plant for industries in Dahej
This is the first desalination plant of 100 MLD set up by any government in the country.
Dahej, a hub of major industries, is rapidly expanding with new industrial units. Currently, the daily requirement of water for the industries in Dahej is around 200 MLD, which is at present fetched from the Narmada river.
The industries will now get treated sea water for their use. “From this plant, 100 MLD water will be delivered daily to the industries in the area. The price of 1,000 litres of treated water will […]
First govt desalination plant for industries inaugurated in Dahej – India
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday inaugurated India’s first government desalination plant only for industrial use at Dahej in Bharuch with a capacity of 100 MLD set up at a cost of Rs 881 crore.
Addressing a gathering at the event, Patel said Gujarat has become a “growth engine” and added, “We have done exemplary work in providing basic facilities… Development of industries is necessary for the state.
Narendra Modi has started Vibrant Gujarat events and since then Gujarat industries have seen great development. We came across water shortage in […]
Nemmeli desalination plant to be ready by 2023 – Chennai – India
Chennai MWSSB has begun work to lay pipelines to draw seawater and discharge brine from the upcoming third desalination plant at Nemmeli. The plant will have a capacity to treat 150 million litres of seawater a day (mld).
Over 50% of the construction of seawater intake sump, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and dissolved air flotation, in the plant has been completed so far.
The CMWSSB has laid cofferdams (a structure that enables work to lay pipelines for the desalination plant).