# Va Tech Wabag secures ₹4,400 crore order for desalination plant in Chennai

Va Tech Wabag, in a joint venture with Metito Overseas, won a design-build-operate order from Chennai Metro Water for a 400 MLD desalination plant worth ₹4,400 crore.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2023-03-31
- Where: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Value: $535.0M (44.0B INR)
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 400 million litres per day
- Products: seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant
- Sectors: [Water Treatment Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/water-treatment-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Va Tech Wabag](https://endata.com/companies/4508.md)
- [Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board](https://endata.com/companies/21207.md) (customer)
- [Metito Overseas](https://endata.com/companies/56948.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [livemint.com](https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/va-tech-wabag-bags-rs-4-400-cr-order-from-cmwssb-to-build-asia-s-largest-desalination-plant-in-chennai-11680244228904.html), 2023-03-31: "This is historically the largest ever order for Wabag."
- [thehindu.com](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/va-tech-wabag-bags-4400-crore-seawater-desalination-project/article66683744.ece), 2023-03-31: "Va Tech Wabag, a Chennai-based multinational corporation in the field of water treatment and desalination, has secured a design, build, operate (DBO) order, for the 400 million litres per day (MLD) Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) desalination project from Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewer"

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