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Detailed explanation-1: -India’s first 100 MLD desalination plant inaugurated in Dahej, Gujarat.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Thursday inaugurated India’s first government desalination plant only for industrial use at Dahej in Bharuch with a capacity of 100 MLD (million litres per day), set up at a cost of Rs 881 crore.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Minjur desalination plant is located in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and will start operations in May 2010. Minjur desalination plant, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, was inaugurated in July 2010 after the completion of trial runs in June 2010.

Detailed explanation-4: -The plant was officially inaugurated on June 17, but the government had put the plant under trial stage for a week’s time. This is the first desalination plant of 100 MLD set up by any government in the country. Dahej, a hub of major industries, is rapidly expanding with new industrial units.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first large-scale desalination plant was built in 1930 at Aruba, in the Netherlands Antilles, near Venezuela. In the 1950s, distillation was the only viable means of desalination of either brackish or sea water.