QC Establishes a Desalination Plant in Bangladesh

QC Establishes a Desalination Plant in Bangladesh


9/5/2016 |


As QC continues to implement water projects in countries where the people suffer from shortages in and scarcity of water, it 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. Not less than 20,000 people benefit from this project which cost 20,000 QR.

Water Projects

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".

Five Excavators

Engineer Khalid also mentioned how QC owns a number of excavators that are used for drilling deep artesian wells in Sudan, Burkina Faso and Niger. "QC has recently signed a cooperation agreement with the German company 'Buhak' so to improve the technologies used in extracting water in Africa. QC implemented a manufacturing and importing two excavators project for Somalia and Mauritania at a cost of 3,378,612 QR," he added.

Dr. Mohammed Amine Hafith, Director of QC's office in Bangladesh, said, "Although in the south west of Bangladesh there are plenty amounts 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".

Artesian Wells

He also 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. "That was not enough, however, for responding to all demands. Some areas lacked drinking water even after digging thousands of meters in the ground. After a careful study, QC was able to find other alternatives to meet the needs of these areas. It ad two options: either to bring water from tens of kilometers 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".

Previous Efforts

QC has already drilled more than 7,000 artesian wells in Bangladesh at a cost of more than 20,000,000 QR. Around 1,000,000 people benefit from those wells. In addition, QC implemented 12 projects for irrigation and drinking water at a cost of around 2,000,000 QR. These projects were implemented for the people living in dry areas in the north west of Bangladesh. From October and until April, these areas suffer from drought and lack irrigation and drinking water exposing the people of these areas to thirst and stopping them from farming their lands. As a result, the people's sufferings and needs increase. In order to overcome such problems, QC drilled the wells, supplied them with networks and provided the necessary equipment for water connection with their lands and for the irrigation of their farms and for their drinking purposes as well.

Thousands of water wells are being drilled for the same purposes there and are going to be over sometime this year.

 

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