DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has established a desalination plant in Bangladesh for the benefit of more than 20,000 people.
“Paigasa Desalination Plant” costing QR20,000 produces around 80,000 litres of water for drinking and home use.
Engineer Khalid Al Yaf’i, Director of Operations Management at QC’s Executive Management, said, “The water plants QC implements in countries that suffer from shortages in and lack of water are vitally important since they help save the lives of people, animals and plants. Through such projects, QC aims at contributing to lessening the negative impacts of drought and use of polluted water which helps enhance public health, mainly for children and women, since the use of polluted water helps cause diseases that spread”.
He said that QC owns a number of excavators that are used for drilling deep artesian wells in Sudan, Burkina Faso and Niger.
“Qatar Charity has recently signed a cooperation agreement with the German company ‘Buhak’ to improve the technologies used in extracting water in Africa. QC implemented a project for manufacturing and importing two excavators for Somalia and Mauritania at a cost of QR3,378,612,” he added.
Dr Mohammed Amine Hafith, Director of QC’s office in Bangladesh, said, “Although in the south west of Bangladesh there is plenty of water, the water is extremely salty. As a result, the people of these areas find it difficult to have drinking water and water for home use”.
He also said that QC has already tried to resolve the problem and took the drilling of thousands of deep artesian wells as a first step.
Those wells were more than 300 metres deep.
“That was not enough, however, for responding to all demands. Some areas lacked drinking water even after digging thousands of metres in the ground.
After a careful study, Qatar Charity was able to find other alternatives to meet the needs of these areas. It had two options: either to bring water from tens of kilometres away through pipes, or to establish water desalination plants.
It was agreed that QC would establish the plants because the other option was very expensive and required long time to reach the lands,” he added.
The Peninsula
DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has established a desalination plant in Bangladesh for the benefit of more than 20,000 people.
“Paigasa Desalination Plant” costing QR20,000 produces around 80,000 litres of water for drinking and home use.
Engineer Khalid Al Yaf’i, Director of Operations Management at QC’s Executive Management, said, “The water plants QC implements in countries that suffer from shortages in and lack of water are vitally important since they help save the lives of people, animals and plants. Through such projects, QC aims at contributing to lessening the negative impacts of drought and use of polluted water which helps enhance public health, mainly for children and women, since the use of polluted water helps cause diseases that spread”.
He said that QC owns a number of excavators that are used for drilling deep artesian wells in Sudan, Burkina Faso and Niger.
“Qatar Charity has recently signed a cooperation agreement with the German company ‘Buhak’ to improve the technologies used in extracting water in Africa. QC implemented a project for manufacturing and importing two excavators for Somalia and Mauritania at a cost of QR3,378,612,” he added.
Dr Mohammed Amine Hafith, Director of QC’s office in Bangladesh, said, “Although in the south west of Bangladesh there is plenty of water, the water is extremely salty. As a result, the people of these areas find it difficult to have drinking water and water for home use”.
He also said that QC has already tried to resolve the problem and took the drilling of thousands of deep artesian wells as a first step.
Those wells were more than 300 metres deep.
“That was not enough, however, for responding to all demands. Some areas lacked drinking water even after digging thousands of metres in the ground.
After a careful study, Qatar Charity was able to find other alternatives to meet the needs of these areas. It had two options: either to bring water from tens of kilometres away through pipes, or to establish water desalination plants.
It was agreed that QC would establish the plants because the other option was very expensive and required long time to reach the lands,” he added.
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