A total of 967 trees might be affected in the ongoing phase of the city’s first desalination plant at Mumbai`s Manori, BMC officials told mid-day on Tuesday. The 967 other trees will be affected with officials saying nearly 97% of them will be transplanted within the perimeter of same project site. The site of the Manori desalination plant. Activists have stated that providing additional water to Mumbai cannot justify avoidable environmental destruction.