{"id":604540,"date":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604540\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:56:10","slug":"can-treated-sea-water-solve-mumbais-growing-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604540\/","title":{"rendered":"Can treated sea water solve Mumbai\u2019s growing water shortage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/133511115.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/toi-plus\/author-bhavikajain-479227926\" class=\"BKh30\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bhavika Jain<\/a>TIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Aug 25, 2026, 20:30 IST IST<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, when Mumbai faced one of its worst water shortages, the city\u2019s residents and commercial establishments had to deal with daily water cuts. The state unsuccessfully experimented with \u2018cloud seeding\u2019 and the beleaguered city\u2019s civic body proposed setting up a desalination plant so that the island city wouldn\u2019t have to rely on rains for its water needs.<br \/>Over 15 years later, that proposal for a desalination plant is finally moving towards reality, even as the gap between water supply and demand grows in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bhavika JainTIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Aug 25, 2026, 20:30 IST IST In 2009, when Mumbai faced one of its worst water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[256206,256209,246,256210,61,60,82,256207,256208],"class_list":["post-604540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-desalination-plant-mumbai","tag-desalination-technology","tag-environment","tag-environmental-concerns-desalination","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-treated-sea-water","tag-water-supply-network-mumbai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}