Navy installs three more Reverse Osmosis plants
 

The Sri Lanka Navy has been implementing several community service programmes under the visionary leadership of the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne. Installation of Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants in areas where high prevalence Chronic Kidney Disease is recorded is yet another noble effort of the Sri Lanka Navy in view of facilitating the common citizens in such areas with clean drinking water.

Going further ahead with this noble cause, 2 RO plants produced by the Navy’s Research and Development Unit were declared open for the community use at the villages of Pahala Siyambalawa in Thalawa and Vedehapura in Medirigiriya. In the same vein an RO system was also erected for the personnel of the SLN Marine Battalion.

The RO facilities at Pahala Siyambalawa and Vedehapura are capable of providing safe drinking water for 345 and 268 families in respective villages. The Presidential Task Force on Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease had made financial allocations for the two facilities. Meanwhile the RO plant dedicated for the Marines will cater the clear drinking water requirement of 164 Marine personnel.

The Sri Lanka Navy has installed a total of 179 Reverse Osmosis plants in different parts of the country till date, facilitating 82,396 families and 64,581 school children with safe drinking water. Further, the Navy is determined to continue this noble effort in a bid to fulfill the drinking water requirement of people prone to Kidney disease.