Danish envoy visits water purification plant at Khipro, distributes clean water among flood affectees.

KHIPRO -- The Ambassador Designate of Denmark to Pakistan Jakob Linulf on Thursday visited Khipro town of district Sanghar and inspected the site of operation established by Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) aimed at providing clean drinking water to the rain/flood hit people of Sindh.

Jacob Linulf was given detailed briefing by DEMA officials regarding water purification system and introduced the salient features of the program. The Ambassador was informed that stagnant rain water is being purified through the state of the art machinery and then provided to the rain hit people through containers.

One hundred thousand liters of purified water is being supplied to the people living on road sides and the camps so that they could be saved from water borne diseases such as Cholera, Gastro, diarrhea, skin ailments and other diseases.

While talking to reporter, the Ambassador Designate Jakob Linulf said that Denmark government was providing a lot of funding to the United Nations, European Union and through international NGOs and it also installed water purification plant at Khipro for provision of clean drinking water to the flood affected people. He said that this water purification plant was being implemented by DEMA which purifies one hundred thousand liters water in the area and the same is being distributed among the...