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Experts scoff state plan on desalination water plants

Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:22 administrator
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The Deccan Chronicle  10.08.2010

Experts scoff state plan on desalination water plants

 Aug. 9: Experts have ridiculed the state government’s much-vaunted plan to meet the city’s water needs through desalination. Even as the ruling DMK brags about the recently-launched Minjur desalination plant that is said to be the country’s largest, water experts said that it was too costly and needless.

“Where is the need for investing Rs 600 crore for pumping 100mld (million litres per day) of desalinated water while nearby Kancheepuram has over 3,000 lakes?” asked Prof Janakarajan of the Madras Institute of Development Studies. As per the agreement, Chennai Metro Water has to pay nearly Rs 15 crore per month to the contract firm IVRCL at the rate Rs 48.66 per kilolitre.

The private company that invested Rs 600 crore would take back the investment in three years, while the contract period is for 25 years. “Countries such as Israel rely on desalination because their annual rainfall is just 330 mm, but the annual rainfall of Chennai is 1,200 mm,” said Prof Janakarajan.

A senior PWD official also pointed out that TN had been getting only over 7 tmcft, against the stipulated 12 tmcft of Krishna water, because of lack of storage facilities. “By enhancing the storage capacity, we will be able to supply enough water to Chennaites,” the PWD official added.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:25
 

'Hogenakkal scheme to give fluorosis-free water'

Monday, 09 August 2010 10:34 administrator
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The New Indian Express  09.08.2010

'Hogenakkal scheme to give fluorosis-free water'

CHENNAI: Fluorosis, the dental condition that is highly prevalent in Dharmapuri and adjoining areas in Tamil Nadu, will be eliminated when the Hogenakkal integrated drinking water project is implemented, Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Managing Director of TWAD, said.

Inaugurating the sixth annual conference of the Tamil Nadu Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Association at Kovalam, Bedi requested the participants of the meet to provide treatment at affordable cost to the common man.

He appreciated the role played by oral and maxillofacial surgeons in treating oral diseases, particularly cancer.

President of Indian Dental Association, Madras Branch, S M Balaji, urged surgeons to upgrade themselves by adopting modern day concepts.

He pointed out that present day reconstruction concepts, particularly the introduction of new bone protein like rhBMP2, have equipped the maxillofacial surgeon’s armamentarium with material that can synthesis the natural bone in the surgical site without adding any foreign body.

Last Updated on Monday, 09 August 2010 10:37
 

Water pipe dream here

Monday, 09 August 2010 07:52 administrator
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The Deccan Chronicle  09.08.2010

Water pipe dream here

Chennai, Aug. 8: Residents of Kathivakkam municipality are irked over the local body’s failure to provide adequate supply of drinking water even a year after completing a Rs 6.22 crore drinking water supply scheme.

“In spite of paying the amount fixed by the local body for availing the water connection, we are not receiving daily water supply,” said S. Saraswathi, a local resident. She said that the local people are entirely dependent on Metro Water supplied by the municipality as the groundwater at Kathivakkam is unfit for consumption due to high fluorine content.

N. Thirusangu, chairman of the municipality, said the municipality is supplying drinking water on alternative days to households which have piped drinking water connection and those houses which do not have pipe connection are being supplied water through lorries.

Though a drinking water project was implemented in the municipality at a cost of Rs 6.22 crore last year to supply 11 lakh litres of water a day, the local body is still facing water shortage, the municipal chairman said.

“The failure to replace the existing 3.1 km long pipeline which has a capacity to carry only 5 lakh litres of water a day with a 12 inch pipe to increase the carrying capacity to 12 lakh litres. We have prepared a plan to replace the pipeline at a cost of Rs. 4.5 crore and it will be submitted to the commissioner of municipal administration very soon for his approval,” he said.

Last Updated on Monday, 09 August 2010 07:54
 
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