Rs 1,000 cr desalination plant for Chennai

CHENNAI: In a bid to augment drinking water supply to Chennaites, Tamil Nadu Government today announced setting up of a desalination plant with a capacity to produce 150 million litre per day at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore.

The plant would come up over 10.50 acre, presently lying vacant adjacent to the existing desalination plant in Nemmeli along the East Coast Road, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said in a suo motu statement in the Assembly.

The new plant would benefit over 6.46 lakh people in the southern areas of the city, several of which were recently brought under the expanded Chennai Corporation ambit.

Jayalalithaa also said it had been decided to set up another desalination plant with a capacity of 200 million litre at Pattipulam near here, in the next four years.

She said the plant can be expanded upto 400 million litre later.