Navy provides 401st RO plant to Thibiriyawa village
 

Sri Lanka Navy completed another community welfare project, on 7^th April 2018. Accordingly, another Reverse Osmosis plant designed by the Navy’s Research and Development Unit, was vested in the general public in Thibiriyawa village in Nikaweratiya at a ceremony attended by Deputy Chief of Staff and Director General Operations Rear Admiral Piyal de Silva. This installation of RO plant would provide clean drinking water for about 350 families in the area.

As per a concept of His Excellency the President Mithreepala Sirisena to provide clean drinking water to the people who suffer from chronic kidney disease, Sri Lanka Navy has installed RO plants in twelve districts with the assistance of Presidential Task Force on Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease. From the year 2015, 401 RO plants have been successfully installed so far. Further, 58 RO plants have been produced and installed by SL Navy only in the year 2018.

As a key partner of the national effort to eradicate chronic kidney disease in collaboration with the Presidential Task Force on Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease, the Navy plans to install more such reverse osmosis plants covering the more adverse districts, in order to provide the general public with clean drinking water.