Providing potable water for Kavaratti people

  • 17/07/2005

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Water, Water everywhere but not a drop to drink. This familiar saying pops up in one's mind while visiting Lakshadweep . The island had no easy accss to safe drinking water for its 60,000 residents till recently. All they had was salt water.Some experiments had been made with a variety of water purification plants at the administrative headquaters, Kavaratti but most of them proved futile.