Kerala Flood Affected Victims
During Kerala's 2018 mega-flood, PAKVITAE sent 50 ultra-filters that gave 5,000+ people safe drinking water.
Kerala, India
Project history
Kerala in India was flooded in August 2018, when PAKVITAE provided the victims with our point-of-use (POU) water purifiers. Through the Nalla Ayalkaran project of Jeevana Samridhi NGO, 50 ultra water filters reached Kuttanad (Alappuzha district) and landslide-hit hill areas in Calicut, Wayanad and Idukki districts. Almost 5,000+ people were provided with clean drinking water through this project.
5,000+
people served
Kerala
Kerala, India
Before PAKVITAE
Major challenges
- Water supply relies primarily on three hand-operated wells and a borehole.
- The underground water table is polluted with faecal contamination and unfit for drinking.
- Open defecation, poor hygiene practices and dirty jerrycans and containers.
- Shallow wells carry a high amount of particulate matter.
- 90% of the settlement lacks access to electricity, so wells and the borehole are operated by hand.
- Mechanical pumping leads to shortages for a community of thousands.
- Bacteria and pathogens cause diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery and typhoid.
- Particulate matter has been linked to kidney-stone cases in children aged 1–12.
“We tested filtered and source water in many labs and the quality of filtered water was extremely good for drinking purpose even from highly contaminated source water.”
Memories from the project
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