Say MLAs to CM when they recently met him, because MMRDA and BMC have not kept their earlier promise of setting up desalination plants to cure the city's water woes

In a city where water shortage is a chronic and persistent problem, the city's leaders have taken up the cudgels on behalf of the citizens, to urge the authorities to make good their long pending promises to implement the city's first desalination plants. Public representatives from across the city want the state government to urgently consider the option of setting up a desalination plant, to put an end to the water woes faced by citizens.


Still a dream: The proposal of building two desalination plants in the
city was put on hold due to the inability to find ideal locations.
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In a recent meeting, city MLAs requested the chief minister to consider their request. "We requested the chief minister to consider the desalination project as an option, in order to ensure that the city does not face a drinking water shortage during summer and monsoon. The desalination plant is a good option, and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, being a technology enthusiast himself, is well aware of the workings of desalination plants.