The study on $250 million desalination plant project to purify 5 million gallons per day (mgd) at Hawksbay has been completed and work on the project will start in the first quarter of 2008 for which 100 acres of land handed over to Ecolink company.
Mustafa Kamal told journalists at his office here on Monday that only today he held a meeting with the company's concerned officials. He said that this project will not only help overcome water shortage in Karachi but future water requirement of Karachi will also depend on this project which, if proved successful, it would be easy to meet future water needs.
In the first phase, he informed, the company will desalinate 5 mgd water but the actual success is the transfer of technology to the city and operation of the plant which will later be expanded gradually. To a question the Nazim said that Water Board would be the consumer and distributor of this water. He said that 5 mgd water has been dedicated for SITE industry.