The water we want - Salinity cripples life

Mina (pseudonym) of Bon Laudob village under Dakope upazilla of Khulna district has to leave her bed very early in the morning. Like most adolescent and adult females of the village she has to carry aluminum pitcher to fetch drinking and cooking water for the family. Every day along with other women she has to walk down to the Mohuri Babur Pukur, a P.S.F water source- two kilometers away from her house. But as hundreds of women gather there for fetching water, it takes around three to five hours in the process.

Same is the story of hundreds of  women in the village. They spend a major portion of their day’s time fetching water from a far off place. People of the two kilometer long village are suffering from the acute scarcity of drinking and cooking water. As a result of this, they get less time to focus on their livelihood.

However, there are some shallow small and large ponds close to the houses of the village. But the inhabitants of those villages claim that salinity of the water of these ponds was at a tolerable level before the Aila flood. But at present the water of the pond contain more saline than the creek water and the water of the filthy ponds are highly infested with blue green algae and zooplanktons which subsequently harbours bacteria of peptic diseases specially deadly cholera, aeomibic dysentery and skin diseases. But the villagers are forced to bathe, wash cloth and cook utensils with this water as no other suitable sources of water are available nearby. As a result of this a good number of people of these villages become prey to water borne disease like diarrhea, cholera, jaundice and dysentery every year.

The immediate need!

Availability of safe water from nearby sources will save time and energy of women which they will be able to use for domestic and livelihood as well as can save them from water borne diseases.

Their lives and suffering can curtail a little by little through our small but concerted efforts which can be done by installing three small desalination plants at Koilashganj, Bonlaudob and Dhangmari of Sundarbans, to supply safe water to the suffering families and save their lives with the fund "The water we want".

We appreciate our valuable donor’s cooperation in building desalination plants. We want more of your cooperation in future too so we can secure safe drinking water for the people of the three villages of Sundarbans.

Donation Utilization:

This quarter we have raised only $81 which will be used in installing three small desalination plants at those villages.

We have been able to support those poor people only because of your continued love and support.

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