A third desalination plant will come up at Pattipulam village along East Coast Road, serving the new areas of Greater Chennai.
With the city all set to become bigger, covering nearly 42 urban local bodies of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board will zero in on a consultant to prepare a detailed project report for a desalination plant at Pattipulam. The site is located a few kilometres away from the upcoming Nemmeli desalination plant.
Using a reverse-osmosis process, the plant will supply 200 million litres (MLD) of water per day – nearly 50% of the additional water needs of the city. Pattipulam plant will guarantee water supply to the IT corridor and southern suburbs, which are seeing a boom in new housing construction. Save Alandur, the rest of the local bodies does not get piped water supply.
