Subarnarekha Port in Collaboration with TSF Instals Solar-powered Water Tank at Chaumukh
- Empowering communities by ensuring safe drinking water
- Provides 12,000 litres of potable water daily to 80 households
Baliapal, October 9, 2024: Reiterating commitment to ensure good health and hygiene for the communities in and around the proposed Subarnarekha Port in the district, Tata Steel Foundation (TSF) has installed a solar-powered water tank in kankadapal village of Chaumukh Grampanchayat in Baliapal block. The facility – equipped with five distribution pipelines – is currently supplying around 12,000 litres of potable safe and pure drinking water daily to 80 households of the village.
Being located in the northern coast of Odisha, the village has been prone to cyclones and storms which continue to pollute and contaminate the ground water in the region every now and then.
“Ground water was the only source of drinking water for us and it got polluted mostly after cyclone Yaas hit the region in 2021. We had been struggling for clean drinking water since then and hardly had access to clean drinking water for our families,” says Savitri Devi a resident of the village noting how community members struggled to find clean water sources.
“We are happy that the new water tank installed by TSF is providing potable drinking water every day to our households,” adds Savitri.
Chaumukh village, which faced devastating consequences from Cyclone Yaas along with a row of various other habitations in the northern coast of Odisha, has long struggled with the issue of water contamination.
