New Indian Desalination Plant Nearing Completion
Local Indian governmental officials have announced that a new 100-million liter per day desalination plant is nearing completion. Located on India’s southeastern coast, the plant is currently 80% complete, and expected to begin operations January 2009.
The plant will process a hundred million liters per day, the equivalent to 26-million US gallons.
According to government officials the plant is nearly completed the installation of most key components, including the intake towers, filters and reverse-osmosis structures. The operation of the new water plant will be conducted by Chennai Water Desalination Limited, a separate entity formed from the two overseeing companies, Hyderabad, India-based IVRCL Infrastructure and Spain-based Befesa Construcción Tecnología Ambiental.
Indian officials also noted that the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board have agreed to purchase water from the new desalination plant for more than 25 years.
With this new desalination plant have come calls for research and development of more plants across India. This, coupled with new research into better ways to filter water, India is becoming a hotbed for desalination technology. Only a week or so ago we covered the development of hollow carbon fibers as a potential water filter by researchers at the Atomic Research Center in Mumbai.
Image: Chennai Water Desalination Limited
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