Desalination plant in Chennai

BENGALURU - KARNATAKA - 30/10/2018 : Harmander Singh, Principal Secretary Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, addressing media at Vidhana Soudha, on Bengaluru on October 30, 2018. The panel on Tuesday reviewed the progress made by the Urban Development department and various City corporations, particularly the BBMP, with regard to disposal of solid waste in a scientific manner. Photo: K. Murali Kumar / The Hindu

Harmander Singh, Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department

In 2021, the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department will focus on faecal sludge treatment projects, desalination, underground drainage, water supply and integrated stormwater drain projects.

We will develop faecal sludge treatment projects at 60 locations, covering smaller urban areas. Many town panchayats will get faecal sludge treatment projects. We plan to establish a desalination plant in Chennai, will 400 million litres per day (mld) capacity. In Villupuram district, a desalination plant of 60-mld capacity will be set up to improve drinking water supply..

The Kosasthalaiyar basin stormwater drain project in the Chennai Corporation is in the pipeline, and is expected to mitigate flooding in north Chennai, covering areas such as Tiruvottiyur, Manali and Madhavaram..

Madurai will get water supply from Vaigai river, through a project with an estimated outlay of ₹1,300 crore. Water supply projects in areas such as Arupukottai will be implemented at an estimated cost of ₹550 crore. In Coimbatore, we will establish an underground drainage system, at an estimated ₹350 crore. The Sivaganga combined water scheme, covering town panchayats and village panchayats, will take shape at an estimated ₹1,800 crore.