Treating 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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Treating water

Water purification units are installed with the assistance of the local communities

After catastrophes such as the tsunami, the main danger for local communities lies in the possible contamination of the water supply.

In fact the tidal wave by inundating the wells made the water brackish and polluted with all kinds of detritus (motor oil, diesel oil, etc.) It was completely unfit for human consumption.

Moreover, in those areas unaffected by the tidal wave but hit by the earthquake water treatment facilities had been damaged, even destroyed, and there were leaks throughout the entire water supply network.