Asia's biggest desalination plant

An international consortium, consisting of two Japanese multinational companies (MNCs), Hitachi and Itochu, and a Singaporean enterprise, Hyflux, a leading firm in water management projects, will set up a major desalination plant at Dahej, Gujarat at an estimated cost of Rs 2,000 crore. The desalination plant’s capacity would be 75 million gallons per day (MGD), senior government officials said. A minister suggested, the state government decided to go in for the desalination option after it found that it would not be possible to provide enough water to industry from Narmada.