This story is from August 11, 2016

Explore using desalinated water: Baig

Minister for urban development and Haj R Roshan Baig is a big votary of the use of desalinated water to meet burgeoning potable water needs of the cities.
Explore using desalinated water: Baig
Bottled water 'less safe' than tap (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images)
Mangaluru: Minister for urban development and Haj R Roshan Baig is a big votary of the use of desalinated water to meet burgeoning potable water needs of the cities.
His recent trip to visit one such desalination plant operated on behalf of Greater Chennai Corporation has firmly convinced the minister that even Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) should try out this option to end its water woes.
The city incidentally witnessed its worst water crisis this summer.
In fact, Greater Chennai Corporation is no stranger to providing desalinated water to its residents and in January this year, ball was set the ball rolling to set up its fourth desalination plant at Perur along East Coast Road to meet the increasing drinking water requirements of the city. It is estimated to cost over Rs4,000 crore. The state capital of Tamil Nadu presently has two desalination plants at Nemmeli and Minjur and a third one proposed again at Nemmeli.
Baig, who recently reviewed function of MCC, exhorted the Mayor M Harinath and other corporators to visit the desalination plants in Chennai and understand its functioning. However, officials privy to city's water supply schematics are not convinced that desalination plant is the answer. "First of all, this concept is capital intensive," noted a former civic body official.
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