NGO 'United Sikhs' opens a water treatment plant in Haiti

Agent-x - June 14 2012, 3:32 AM

According to timesofindia-indiatimes-com on 14 June 2012, Amrtisar: Sikh NGO, United Sikhs has opened a water treatment plant in Haiti to provide clean drinking water to as many as 5000 survivors of the 2010 earthquake, informed NGO's director Gurvinder Singh on Thursday.

"This plant provides clean drinking water, by a reverse osmosis system process to over 5000 Haitians on a daily basis" said he.

The project is aimed to address the severity of a cholera epidemic and other water related illnesses that cause sickness, death added he. He further informed that United Sikhs had already distributed 20 tons of rice to over 25 orphanages and make-shift camps to enable the feeding of over an estimated 250,000 meals.

Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara of Thailand donated the rice. The United Sikhs Aid team shipped the rice to Haiti and set up distribution in Santo la Plaine, Port-au-Prince, Cite Soleil, Aux Cayes, Montrouis, Mirebalais and Coteaux Port Salut.

Deputies in each area assisted the team in distribution.

Quoting United Nations' statistics, he informed that 600,000 Haitians were still without shelter, general population was extremely vulnerable and faces food insecurity and the threat of cholera due to which 6500 persons had died last years.

He informed that they had found that almost 70 percent of the available fresh water gets used for irrigation in agriculture, it takes 5 liters of well water to make 1 liter of clean bottled water and an average Haitian family uses 5 gallons of water per day.
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