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1 April 2005Cascal provides clean water to tsunami refugees in Indonesia
Biwater and Nuon’s JV, Cascal, has been working hard to supply clean water to refugees since the tsunami hit on the 26th December 2004.
The Cascal Group, with the help of its operations in Bournemouth & West Hampshire (BWH) and PT Adhya Tirta Batam (ATB) and its office in Singapore, has sent equipment and skilled volunteers to the disaster area that together are worth close to US$1million.
The team of nine skilled volunteers from Cascal arrived in Aceh in January to set up the equipment. Once the equipment was set up and the two volunteers from BWH were satisfied that they had trained the ATB staff to use the equipment, they returned back to the UK. The ATB staff are still operating the plants, which is currently supplying between 10 to 13 water tankers from the local water company as well as supplying a steady stream of refugees who are collecting water from the standpipes at the site.
The local water company has now deployed three full time plant operators and over the next five weeks ATB staff will provide additional training to the operators. The equipment will remain in Aceh indefinitely and even after departure, the ATB staff will keep a close involvement for a further 6 months.
In addition, Cascal has located two more package plants supplied by the UK company DEC to help the tsunami. Cascal has now shipped them to Indonesia and installed them next to Cascal’s two other plants. They are now in operation and supplying extra water to refugees and residents.
For more information please send an e-mail to the Marketing Manager,
enquiries@cascal.co.uk
