Water Project from JRP Odisha, India

The Blue Community Jeevan Rekha Parishad – Lifeline Council from Odisha, India, is looking for donors to realize this project:

Ensuring access to safe drinking water for Iron/Fluoride Contaminated Villages of Daspalla Block, Nayagarh District, Odisha, India.

The project will be for a period of 6 months with target to install two filtration units, in the vulnerable heavily Iron and fluoride affected communities in NayagarhDistrict of Odisha. Two villages namely Gurha, Falpaju, of Dasapalla block will be part of the project. Under the expansion of the project other two Iron and fluoride water affected villages like Bhagamunda and Gunduribadi will be covered.

Researchers have found that high concentration of Iron in ground water has been observed in more than 1.1 lakh habitations in the country. Ground water contaminated by iron has been reported from Assam, WestBengal, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and Karnataka. Localized pockets are observed in states of Bihar, UP, Punjab, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu ,Kerala and North Eastern States.

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