Chennai: Water ATMs have been launched at Maraimalai Nagar and Avadi on the outskirts of Chennai.
Maraimalai Nagar Commissioner V Vijayakumari inaugurated the facility and expressed happiness about the benefits it will provide to the community.
These water ATMs by Alfa Laval are expected to cater to more than 3000 household belonging to the marginalised and underprivileged communities in these areas.
These plants are 10 stage, cloud-managed, solar-powered, cashless water ATMs. The plant has a 10-stage fully automated water purification system. Each of these plants has 1000 liters per hour processing capacity and is geared to be operational for eight hours a day, thus providing up to 8000 liters of water a day per site.
Ramdas Salunke, vice-president, marine and service, said, “Access to safe drinking water is every citizen’s right and we at Alfa Laval is committed to it. Chennai depends entirely on ground water for its water source. We will be installing more such ATMs in other municipalities and villages in Tamilnadu in near future.”