Access to potable water for coastal people

Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is a community based non-profit, non-government and development organization. BEDS has been working in the Sundarbans coastal region since 2013 for the socio-economic development of the coastal people. BEDS has been trying to provide safe drinking water to the climate vulnerable underprivileged Sundarbans coastal community since 2015. We have re-excavated 3 ponds and established Solar Pond Sand and filter system and supported 4594 villagers. But due to the salinity of that water, BEDS is trying to raise the required fund to support those people with desalinated water (3 desalination system). It is widely known that desalination is a harmful system for the environment if the ground water is desalinated. The people of the locality live from hand to mouth, so they cannot afford to buy mineral water. They have to depend on rain water. But after the monsoon they have to use the nearby pond’s water for drinking purpose and they suffer from various kinds of water contaminated diseases.

Realizing the situation and according to the request of the deprived communities, we started working to establish Reverse Osmosis water purification system with Water ATM in Paschim Dhangmari and Uttor Banishanta village. Two 500 liter/hour Reverse Osmosis Water Purification systems with Water ATM are installed by using the existing facilities (Solar Pond Sand and Filter system). As a result the 45% people of the Banishanta Union are now getting access to pure drinking water. After installing the Reverse Osmosis Water Purification systems water contaminated diseases like cholera, dysentery, jaundice etc are ‍about to disappear. Recently we have distributed 200 water jars among the villagers.    

Target grant of this project is 30,560$. So far, 7,677$ is raised from 58 admirable donations. We are extremely grateful to the donors for being with us. And we expect that they will continuously help us for what we are aiming at.

We know it is you; the kind hearted donors, who can make it possible to help the coastal people to provide them safe drinking water. So, please be kind to the safe drinking water deprived communities and be with them.