Loading the emergency equipment.

  • Organizing emergency response teams

    The volunteers' first glimpse of where they will be working.

  • Loading the emergency equipment

  • Coming face to face with the aftermath of the tsunami

  • Getting the volunteers and equipment to where they are needed

  • Checking the equipment

  • The welcome of the local community

  • Assisting NGOs

  • Living conditions

  • Inventory of requirements

  • Assessing the quality of the wells

  • Prioritizing drinking water for the hospital

  • Repairing the water supply system in Meulaboh

  • Treating water

  • Storing drinking water

  • Supplying water

  • Monitoring the quality of the drinking water

  • Children back at school

  • Supplying drinking water to remote villages

  • Concentrating on the task ahead

  • The feeling of having been useful


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Loading of equipment

Specialists load the emergency equipment onto cargo planes.

Veolia Waterforce's emergency equipment is quickly loaded on board special planes provided by the French Government or the French Red Cross.

This equipment consists of pumps, generators, water treatment products and equipment as well as systems which makes it possible to conduct on site water analysis.

The first volunteers from Veolia Water sent out from France will arrive in those countries that have been affected such as the Maldives, Sri Lanka or Indonesia.