Ballast Nedam joins NWSDB to enhance the lives of 17,000 Hemmathagama homes with clean, treated drinking water 17,000 families in Hemmathagama will have access to clean drinking water when work is completed on a new intake and water treatment facility connected to a newly laid out pipeline network. Last week, the first pipe was laid for the water treatment plant by Ballast Nedam International Projects B.V., a construction and development company from the Netherlands with a 140-year history of making life accessible for communities. In Hemmathagama, a small town near Kegalle in Sri Lanka’s Sabaragamuwa province, families from seven villages still drink untreated, raw water from the river Auphinella. Access to clean drinking water will change their lives, meaning fewer diseases among the residents and less pressure on the area’s already overstretched healthcare system. Ballast Nedam, with mother company Renaissance Construction, will handle the project from the design stage ...
Feb 6, 2021
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