Two more Reverse Osmosis plants vested with the community
 

As per the guidance of the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, the Navy has been implementing a number of Community Service Programmes focusing on the wellbeing of the civilian population. As part of that noble cause, the Navy’s Research and Development Unit continues to install Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants in areas where a high prevalence of the Chronic Interstitial Nephritis in Agricultural Communities (CINAC) is recorded. Accordingly, they declared open two more (RO) plants installed at the Kebithigollewa Police Station and fishing hamlet in Padaviya, for community use today (12).

As a result of the RO plant installation at Kebithigollewa Police Station, over 60 Police personnel and 280 families in the area are facilitated with safe drinking water. Meanwhile the facility at the fishing hamlet in Padaviya is capable of processing the safe drinking water requirement of 200 families in the village. The Presidential Task Force on Prevention of Kidney Diseases and Sri Lanka Police Headquarters were extremely generous in providing necessary finance to set up these two facilities.

The Sri Lanka Navy’s Research and Development Unit is engaged in a praiseworthy cause by producing and installing low-budget RO plants across the country utilizing their expertise, in short span of time. As a consequence of that, the Navy had successfully installed 98 RO plants in different parts of the country and facilitated over 45,610 families and 40,350 school children with safe drinking water to date. Besides, the Navy is determined to set up a number of RO facilities in due course in view of eradicating the renal disease from Sri Lanka.