As Qatar Charity (‘QC’) continues to implement water projects in countries where the people suffer from shortages in and scarcity of water, it has recently established a desalination plant in Bangladesh for the benefit of more than 20,000 people. “Paigasa Desalination Plant” produces around 80,000 liters 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 the public health, mainly for children and women, since the use of polluted water helps increase the diseases that spread”.
Dr. Mohammed Amine Hafith, Director of QC’s office in Bangladesh, said that QC has already tried to fix the situation and took the drilling of thousands of deep artesian wells as a first step. Those wells were more than 300 meters deep in the ground.
QC has already drilled more than 7,000 artesian wells in Bangladesh at a cost of more than 20,000,000 QR. Thousands of water wells are being drilled for the same purposes there and are going to be over sometime this year.
