[인도] 콜로 골드 필드에 새로운 담수화 플랜트 건설

인도 남서부에 위치한 카르나타카 주(Karnataka State)는 IDE 테크놀로지(IDE Technology India), 인도 베가스(Vagas)와 함께 콜로 골드 필드(Kolar Gold Fields)에 4개의 담수화 플랜트를 건설할 계획이라고 밝혔다.

이 담수화 프로그램은 △Mangaluru 공장(3억8천만 달러) △Udupi 공장(1억1천만 달러) △Kundapura(2천3백만 달러) △Saligrama 공장(1천200만 달러)로 구성된다.

콜로 골드 필드는 카르나타카의 주도인 벵갈루루(Bengaluru)에 집중된 자원 등을 완화하기 위한 신도시이다. 주 당국은 신도시 프로젝트와 디자인 작업을 위해 글로벌 입찰을 진행할 방침이다.

한편, IDE 테크놀로지는 인도 남부에서 빠르게 성장하고 있는 기업으로, 2013년 타밀 나두 주(Tamil Nadu State) 첸나이(Chennai)에서 인도 최초의 대규모 담수화 플랜트를 가동한 바 있다.

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IDE India to deliver desalinated water to proposed new city

Karnataka State, Southwest India, is proposing to build four new desalination plants with IDE Technology India and Indian firm Vagas, as part of a project to build new city Kolar Gold Fields, reports New Indian Express.

The proposed desalination programme comprises an INR 2,533.61 crore ($380 million) plant at Mangaluru, a $110 million plant at Udupi, one of $23 million at Kundapura, and at Saligrama, a $12 million plant. The plants will be supplied by the Yettinahole Integrated Drinking Water Project/ Netravati River Diversion Project, a controversial scheme to divert the west-flowing River Netravati eastwards.

The new city is proposed to be built on land belonging to Bharat Gold Mines, and is intended to ease pressure on Karnataka’s capital city Bengaluru. The state will issue global tenders for a detailed report on the new city project, and for design work.

IDE is rapidly building its presence in Southern India. In January, it signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Visakhapatnam district, in Andhra Pradesh State, for a 100,000 m3/d desalination plant near Pudimadaka, worth $105 million, The Hindu reported.

IDE began operating India’s first large desalination plant in Chennai, Tamil Nadu State, in 2013.

A new desalination plant project in Chennai was set back in February 2017, when the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change deferred coastal regulation zone clearance, and requested more information. Several tenders for the plant were issued by Metrowater, Chennai’s water authority, in November 2016.

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2017년 3월 8일]