Hitachi and Itochu consortium plans Asia's biggest desalination plant at Dahej

An international consortium, consisting of two Japanese multinational companies (MNCs), Hitachi and Itochu, and a Singaporean enterprise, Hyflux, a leading firm in water management projects, will set up a major desalination plant at Dahej at an estimated cost of Rs 2,000 crore.

The desalination plant's capacity would be 75 million gallons per day (MGD).

The consortium will be signing up an agreement with the state government on March 22 to set up the biggest desalination plant of Asia. To be set up in the Dahej special economic zone (SEZ), The project will also provide water to the whole of industrial area of the region.