The Rotary Pacific Water for Life Foundation has done it again.

This time in Narewa Village, in the Province of Ra.

The 200 people there will now have safe and clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing and cleaning.

To top it off, the water will flow by turning on their taps.

It was yet another project undertaken by the Rotary Pacific Water for Life Foundation and included sourcing water from a borehole, pumped into tanks in the village as well as piping to individual homes, all completed at a cost of just around $15,000.

Foundation manager Joel Sahai said the facility was commissioned last weekend by the general manager of Westpac Banking Corporation in Fiji Jason Stephens.

Westpac, together with the FIJI Water Foundation and the Vodafone ATH Fiji Foundation are the three local donors which provide annual funding to the Rotary Water Foundation.

“The provision of funding for much needed clean and safe drinking water to disadvantaged and impoverished settlements was a demonstration of their corporate social responsibility policy,” Mr Sahai said.

“The villagers previously walked several metres to collect and bring back containers of water to their homes for cooking as well as for bathing and washing,” Mr Sahai said.

Established in October 2007, the foundation has been helping rural communities throughout Fiji in providing sustainable and safe drinking water. To date it has 91 completed projects costing just over $1 million and benefiting around 33,950 people with 140 more developing projects on Viti Levu, Yasawas, Kadavu, Vanua Levu and other islands.

These projects are a partnership between the foundation and the settlement or village, the former providing the funding and the village on its part, making its people available to assist in the construction and installation works with labour input.

The foundation receives annual funding from the three local donors and help from the Rotary International Foundation.

Source: The Fiji Sun