It was a strenuous work for the women of the village to provide clean drinking water to their families.
Still, the villagers, especially the women, who are responsible for collecting water, were dependent on these two sources to meet the family’s needs for drinking, cooking and other household purposes.
Almost all the villages in Kanas block were severely affected by water from Chilika and floodwater from the rivers.
Every day the women spent hours to make polluted river water potable.
The tube well water that gets filtered through the iron removal plants is free of bad smell and taste.
Pond to potability In Suhagpur, the villagers were dependent on the pond water for drinking and cooking.
“The pond water caters to the 1,000-odd population of the entire village,” Pradhan said.
Villagers draw the filtered water from the last chamber.
There are five iron removal plants and two pond sand filtration units set up in different villages in Kanas block.
With setting up of iron removal plants and the pond sand filtration units, the women of these villages are relieved from the strenuous labor of purifying the water to make it fit for drinking.