Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals is proposing to build a 50,000 m3/d desalination plant at Tannirbhavi Beach in Karnataka State, southwest India, reports The Hindu.
The company has submitted a proposal to Karnataka State government outlining the INR 200 crores ($30 million) project, with a view to increasing its oil refining capacity from 15 to 18 million metric tons by 2020. The company currently reuses wastewater from a sewage treatment works in the Kavoor district of Mangalore City.
The move follows a severe water shortage in the region in 2016, which led some industrial operators temporarily to halt work.
A team from Karnataka State’s District Industries Centre, one of a countrywide network of local economic development agencies, is to visit the desalination plant in Chennai in 2017.