Supplying drinking water to remote villages

  • 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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Supplying drinking water to remote villages

Tanker trucks are used to supply remote villages with drinking water from emergency facilities set up in the nearest town.

In the aftermath of the tsunami numerous remote villages lack a supply of clean drinking water.

Tanker trucks bring water treated in facilities set up in the nearest town to these villages.