Water Mission continues aiding Nepal post-flood

At the end of August, a devastating flood hit a wide area of Nepal, with thousands of lives lost and leaving tens of thousands more homeless.

 

The full scale of the disaster continues to be uncovered, with communities still cut off and widespread damage to roads, homes, and other critical infrastructure, the number of people killed, missing, displaced, continues to grow.

 

The Water Mission responded within days of the tragic event, sending a team of engineers to provide emergency safe drinking water for communities of internally displaced people. Many of these communities are gathered in and around schools, hospitals, police stations, and other public places.

 

The team is working closely with the government and has shared an encouraging video on the organization's website. 

 

But the need for relief continues to be dire.

 

The Water Mission team is in Bidur, where people are slowly recovering and have access to power now, yet there is still no access to running water. There are empty storage tanks scattered throughout the region, with no one currently able to fill them. The team is adapting to the quickly changing situation on the ground and plans to begin trucking water from four distribution points to some of the empty water tanks. This will allow them to serve even more people with treated, safe water.

 

To date, the team has:

• Set up four water treatment systems that have produced nearly 30,000 liters of safe water to date and are each serving between 350-950 people each day. That number will increase once they can start trucking water.

• A fifth system (at the army camp) is still in process.

• They’ve purchased 500 jerry cans to support water collection and began distributing to people in the region.

 

Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit based in North Charleston.

 

You can read the original report on the DI News website.

 

Provided by Water Mission.