The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ambitious plan for a second 200-MLD desalination plant, at Versova, continues to remain in limbo, with the civic body likely to extend the deadline for the submission of bids. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO

However, officials said that Mumbai ’s first desalination plant, planned in Manori, is set to get a big boost with the BMC likely to finalise the negotiations this month with the lowest bidder.

To cater to Mumbai’s burgeoning water needs, the BMC has charted plans to develop two 200 MLD desalination plants in the city. A desalination plant is an industrial facility that extracts and treats the saline and mineral components of seawater, rendering it suitable for human consumption and irrigation purposes.

The first desalination plant was

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