Storing 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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Storing drinking water

Water tanks are installed as close as possible to the local communities.

The water is treated by water purification units which are set up close to the most suitable water sources. Water quality is continuously analyzed (salt content levels, pH, turbidity, bacteriological state and chlorine levels, etc.).

Drinking water is supplied by tanker trucks to those communities most in need.

Once there, the water is stored in a series of tanks built by the volunteers and with the assistance of local volunteers.