Weighing pros and cons of setting up desalination plant in Puducherry.

The government is carefully considering the pros and cons of establishing a desalination plant to lessen the dependence on depleting groundwater reserves to serve the city’s ever expanding drinking water needs, PWD Minister K. Lakshminarayanan said recently.

He was speaking at the launch of the ‘WaterFest ‘23-Stewardship for Water and Biodiversity’, a seven-week festival hosted “to celebrate humankind’s deep connection with water and instil a sense of its value as a life-sustaining resource”. The third edition of the festival that began on World Wetlands Day and will conclude on World Water Day (March 22) is organised by ‘All For Water For All’ (A4W4A), a collective of individuals and organisations campaigning for improved water management.

THE HINDU