Providing the inhabitants of Meulaboh with drinking water

  • 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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Repairing the water supply system in Meulaboh

Damaged by the earthquake, emergency facilities need to be built in order to re-establish the water supply system for the town of Meulaboh.

The earthquake seriously damaged all water production facilities in the town of Meulaboh as well as damaging its water supply network.

Veolia WaterForce's experts installed emergency water facilities to supply the local community with drinking water before working to repair the damage.

Their efforts proved to be successful in that possible risks such as epidemics (cholera, dysentery, etc.) associated with a lack of clean drinking water seem to have been avoided.