power plants are generally constructed near sea coast to meet their requirement of cooling The warm water discharge from the thermal plant is one of the major environmental concerns view of the thermal pollution in the sea water. The limit for the warm water discharge from thermal power plant has to be monitored and Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL) is a fired power plant which operates (24 × 7) at an system” based sea water circulation for generation. The used sea water is then into the sea through an outlet channel. India, several other coal-fired thermal power plants employ seawater for a variety of functions, cooling the condenser system. Hence 1 is not correct. extraction of huge amounts of water by coal-fired power plants may affect the short-term of water in India’s river basins, a recent has pointed out. study, titled Vulnerability assessment of thermal plants in India under water stress conditions, has at the impact of water consumption by coal-fired power plants on India’s growing water crisis. major power grids in India — eastern, western, and southern — are dependent on the 14 river with more plants distributed in the Indus, Ganga, and Godavari basins. The catchments in are under ‘high water stress’ due to the post- geographical shift in the construction of new power plants favouring northern and eastern basins. Hence statement 2 is not correct. are both privately and publicly owned coal-fired power stations in India. Many private have invested in the power industry and coal-fired thermal power facilities, such as Coastal Power Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Power. Hence statement 3 is not correct.