THE BRIHANMUMBAI Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ambitious desalination plant project, which is expected to resolve Mumbai’s water crisis is set to be operated entirely on renewable energy.
A desalination plant is an industrial facility that extracts the saline and mineral components of sea-water to make it suitable for human consumption and irrigation.
The idea of setting up a desalination plant was floated in 2020, during the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. In February 2022, the civic body had appointed a consultant to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) and carrying out a feasibility study for this plant. This report was submitted to BMC in November 2022.
