[Assam] How Does a Micro water Supply Plant work?
Chan Mahanta
cmahanta at charter.net
Wed Feb 25 11:51:20 PST 2009
**** Isn't this amazing REPORTING?
> Micro water supply system introduced in Subankhata areas---
>As per unofficial reports, over 15 such tanks have been constructed---
**** What SUCH tanks?
>small to medium size tanks have been built with a capacity of 500 to
>1500 litre of water.
> The generators for power supply are under the users' supervision
>and operation.
**** How does one relate to the other in the two sentences above, for example?
>With the installation of the micro water supply system, the age-old
>dependence of the village people >on rivers and ponds for drinking
>water has noticeably come down.
>With this, the impact of water-born diseases is also expected to
>minimisethis year.
**** How does the conclusion follow the previous statement ? Can the
water become disease free, just because they are stored in 'tanks' ?
**** As I always say, this damned English language is killing them!
At 9:42 AM -0800 2/25/09, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:
>Does anyone know how this Micro Water Supply Plant works?
>
>
>>From the Assam Tribune
>STATE
>________________________________
>Micro water supply plants
>Correspondent
> MUSHALPUR, Feb 24 - Micro water supply system introduced in
>Subankhata areas in Baksa district have relieved the people to some
>extent where acute shortage of drinking water has remained a vexed
>problem since ages.
>
>As per unofficial reports, over 15 such tanks have been constructed
>in Subankhata areas which includes one each at Uttarkuchi,
>Bandarguri, Odalguri, Satgaon, Dakshinkuchi, Jopadong Milan Chowk,
>Jopadong Bicharpur, Uttar Subankhata, Bijgaon and Amguri, two tanks
>at Subankhata and three tanks at Maithabari while some others are
>under construction.
>
>As per the population of the villages, small to medium size tanks
>have been built with a capacity of 500 to 1500 litre of water. The
>generators for power supply are under the users' supervision and
>operation. With the installation of the micro water supply system,
>the age-old dependence of the village people on rivers and ponds for
>drinking water has noticeably come down. With this, the impact of
>water-born diseases is also expected to minimisethis year.
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