Korean-invested Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina) announced that it has received an order to manufacture four 4,000-ton seawater desalination plants for Saudi Arabia. The order came from Doosan Vina’s parent company Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction of South Korea who earlier had announced a US$1 billion order from the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia. The c ...

A few months from now, the second desalination plant in Nemmeli will start supplying water to the city, and Chennai Metrowater will incur huge expenses in buying it — placing massive financial stress on an agency already burdened by revenue deficits for over six years now. In the last fiscal year alone, the difference between the water agency’s income and expenditure was nearly Rs. 100 crore. One major reas ...