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13 January 2005The Cascal Group sends aid to Indonesia to provide water for the tsunami survivors
Cascal, with the help of its Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water (BWH) and PT Adhya Tirta Batam (ABT) operations rushed to organise aid for Indonesia when they were contacted by the Medan City Water Company (PDAM Medan). Skilled personnel and package water treatment plant equipment has been requested and is now on its way to Indonesia.
PDAM Medan has currently identified nine refugee camps on the outskirts of towns in northern Sumatra and each comprises of 6,000 people. Three camps are to the south of Banda Aceh and desperately need small package treatment plants. River water up to a few kilometres inland is still saline and the relief team will need to dig wells to extract raw water.
Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water has provided one trailer mounted water treatment plant producing water for up to 50,000 people (10 litres per day), two skid mounted water treatment plants to supply up to 16,000 people, temporary storage tanks and 100 days stock of chemicals, tools and provisions. In addition BWH has released three skilled operators who will be in Indonesia for approximately two weeks while they train the ATB staff to operate the package plants. ATB with the help of Cascal’s Singapore office has played a large part in arranging the logistics of moving the equipment in Indonesia as well as liaising with PDAM Medan to find the most suitable locations for the aid. ATB staff will operate the plants for up to three months during which time they will train suitable Acehnese staff to take over the operations.
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