The stall put up by Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) in an exhibition displaying the drinking water schemes for a total of 152 villages in Bemetara district is drawing huge attention of the visitors at Rajyotsava 2014 here.
The stall also displays the water supply schemes in the three development blocks mainly Saja, Bemetra and Navagarh in which the proposed community water supply schemes for Saja development block have also been displayed.The State Government has come out with an integrated drinking water and sanitation scheme for 113 villages of Bemetra district which are facing the problem of water salinity. The schemes aims to provide benefir to more than 2 lakh people during the next three decades.
The exhibition also displays models of the solar based water supply arrangement besides water harvesting techniques for ground water conservation.It may be recalled that the State has established a total of 333 ‘Flouride Control Equipment’ in various parts of the State to eliminate the problem of excess fluoride in water. The Department has also established a ‘Water Quality Testing laboratory’ in the exhibition.