Water for Life Voices
Philippines
Water and Sanitation (WATSAN) of the Team Albay-OCD Bicol humanitarian mission in Philippines purified available source of water using state-of-the-art water purifying machine with a capacity of 33,000 liters per hour to provide safe drinking water to typhoon stricken communities of Compostela Valley and in the municipalities of Boston, Cateel and Baganga in Davao Oriental after typhoon Pablo devastated in Mindanao region in 2012. The humanitarian team provided drinking water to calamity victims dubbed as “Tabang MindaNow”. Water and sanitation is the most serious and pressing concerns after the disaster as major pipelines and reservoir badly damaged while bottled water doubled the regular prize making the ‘water’ as the most pricey due to unavailability of potable water. Typhoon Pablo is the second strongest typhoon that hit Central and Southern Mindanao since 1912 or 100 years ago. The people of Central and and Southern Mindanao expressed gratitude to Team Albay-OCD Bicol humanitarian team for helping a hands to waterless typhoon stricken communities here.
Photo and text by Rhaydz Barcia, Correspondent THE MANILA TIMES
Philippines
Water and Sanitation (WATSAN) of the Team Albay-OCD Bicol humanitarian mission in Philippines purified available source of water using state-of-the-art water purifying machine with a capacity of 33,000 liters per hour to provide safe drinking water to typhoon stricken communities of Compostela Valley and in the municipalities of Boston, Cateel and Baganga in Davao Oriental after typhoon Pablo devastated in Mindanao region in 2012. The humanitarian team provided drinking water to calamity victims dubbed as “Tabang MindaNow”. Water and sanitation is the most serious and pressing concerns after the disaster as major pipelines and reservoir badly damaged while bottled water doubled the regular prize making the ‘water’ as the most pricey due to unavailability of potable water. Typhoon Pablo is the second strongest typhoon that hit Central and Southern Mindanao since 1912 or 100 years ago. The people of Central and and Southern Mindanao expressed gratitude to Team Albay-OCD Bicol humanitarian team for helping a hands to waterless typhoon stricken communities here.
Photo and text by Rhaydz Barcia, Correspondent THE MANILA TIMES