Providing-potable-water-to-thousands-in-india

Since our last report, SevaChild International has drilled another 36 wells that are delivering clean, fresh, safe water to hundreds and hundreds of individuals in the Indian state of Odisha.  The villages in which we are installing water wells are some of the poorest in the entire country; in fact, some of these villages represent leper colonies whose residents don't even have any means of support.

Prior to the advent of wells that supply potable water, villagers were acquiring their water supply by digging holes in the ground until water appeared.  As if that weren't bad enough, it was necessary to allow the water to sit for a minimum of 24 hours so as to let the agitated dirt sink to the bottom of the hole.  The water was contaminated, not only by poisonous insects, but by pathogens resulting from animals utilizing the same source.

Thanks to SevaChild's efforts, village residents now have access to water that will no longer sicken -- and even kill -- so many of them.  In the leper colonies, where many residents cannot operate a water pump due to side effects of their disease, electric pumps are delivering the life-sustaining natural resource in question.

The average person cannot survive for more than five days without water.  We continue to do everything we can to ensure that such a consideration is never part of the equation in these remote rural enclaves of Odisha, India.