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.
Mumbai As the city reels under acute water crisis, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is studying feasibility of desalination plants in Mumbai.
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
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.
Mumbai municipality to induce rains; activists call it a sham torrential rains pounded Mumbai in the last week of June, but failed to help the city tide over the severe water shortage. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is now making frantic efforts to ease the crisis. On July 15, its standing committee decided to induce artificial rains through cloud seeding. As per
IBM is pushing ahead into providing technology services to manage water, a market $10 billion market that the company sees growing quickly.
"This to me is an area that's really going to explode in the next three to five years," said Sharon Nunes, who heads IBM's Big Green Innovations initiative. "People see it as a gap. The water market is transforming."
Chief Secretary reviews status of the project work
GETTING READY: A view of one of the units at the desalination plant near Minjur that is expected to be commissioned in October.
CHENNAI: Treated water from the desalination plant at Kattupalli near Minjur will be supplied to the city from early October.
Nemili unit to have daily capacity of 100 million litres.
The desalination plant at Minjur near Chennai
R. Balaji
Chennai, July 31 even groups of Indian and international infrastructure companies are bidding for the Rs 950-crore desalination project to come up to the south of Chennai.
