MP bats for desalination plant

Nashik: Dindori MP Harishchandra Chavan has reiterated his demand for setting up a desalination plant in Maharashtra, so that the coastal cities can use water from the plant and the water in the dams can be diverted to the eastern side of the Western Ghats.
Back from a tour to Israel, where he had visited a desalination plant, Chavan said he would raise the issue with the Prime Minister and seek his assistance for setting up the plant.A deslination plant on 10 hectares of land and employing 42 people can generate 62.4 crore litre drinking water per day at the cost of less than Rs 0.04 per litre, the MP claimed.
"There is a desalination plant in Tamil Nadu and I have visited it several times," said the minister.
"I have spoken to water resources department minister Girish Mahajan and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Maharashtra can have several such plants that could be set up on build-operate-transfer," he added.
"Water from the plant can be used locally and the water in the dams, which is being transported to the coastal cities, can be diverted to the eastern parts," Chavan said.