Saline Water Drainage Program by Mukti at Kaumari Village

Devastated by cyclone Amphan almost a week ago, several villages on remote islands of the Sunderbans and the coastal belt in West Bengal are now facing an acute drinking water crisis. The Sunderbans is the world’s largest mangrove delta and home to more than 4.5 million people. It is spread over two districts – South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas and has 102 islands of which 54 are inhabited.

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The cyclone destroyed dozens of pipelines that used to supply drinking water to the islands surrounded by rivers fed with saline tidal water from the sea. Salt water from these rivers has gushed into the villages through breaches in the embankments filling up the sweet water ponds and hundreds of tube wells still remain submerged in saline water even a week after the calamity.

Most ponds will have to be emptied and treated before they are filled again for the water to become fit for drinking. Mukti started draining out the saline water from the ponds. Mukti is draining out the saline water of 3 ponds at Keumari village under Patharprotima Block. The owners of these three ponds are Mr. Bikash Das, Mr. Sasanka Mura and Mr. Madhusudhan Purkait whose pond water is used by 4 families, 8 families and 10 families respectively. All these families will be benefitted if fresh water can be refilled in these ponds.

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Mukti is working on every possibility to ensure that the villagers back to their normal lives.