Navy installs six more Reverse Osmosis plants

Accomplishing Sri Lanka Navy’s another community service project; six more Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants were installed in difficult areas where kidney deceases are rampant due to   lack of available water resources to meet purified drinking water needs of the community within the region. 

Keeping up with this most needy requirement, the Navy declared open newly installed six  RO plants produced by the Navy’s Research and Development Unit for the community use at the villages of Diwulankadawala Dharmajayanthi Viharaya, Wadigeweva in Medirigiriya, and Nawa Vilana Pulliyagoda Rajamaha Viharaya in Dimbulagala, Madatugama in Kekirawa, Wellamudawa in Thirappane.

The Sri Lanka Navy, on par with the guidance and visionary leadership of the Commander of Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, has been installing RO plants around the country as part of its community service programmes   to facilitate the common citizens with clean drinking water.

The RO facilities installed with the financial allocations of the Presidential Task Force on Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease at villages of Divulankadawala, Wadigeweva and Dharmajayanthi Viharaya in Chethiyagiri are capable of providing safe drinking water for 620, 495 and 590 families respectively. The  RO plants at Nawa Milana Pulliyagoda Temple, Madatugama and Wellamudawa will provide safe water for 470, 510 and 1500 families respectively.

The Ministry of Buddhasasana made financial allocation to install RO plant at Nawa Milana Pulliyagoda Temple.

The Sri Lanka Navy has installed a total of 185 Reverse Osmosis plants in different parts of the country till date, facilitating 86,586 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.