DRINKING WATER SYSTEM AT THE JACMEL PRISON
(Haiti Libre) -
At a capacity of 20,000 liters per day, water treatment by ultrafiltration, has been installed at the Jacmel prison. Funded by the Section Community Violence Reduction (CVR) of the Minustah, to the tune of U.S. $70,000, and set up by the NGO Life Giving Force (LGF), this facility will help to provide drinking water, continuously and in the long term, to the administrative staff and inmates, and thus contribute to reduce significantly the risk of contamination by waterborne diseases.
The project is part of the fight against the spread of cholera in the Southeast department, including through the installation of such devices, in Multipurpose Centres in seven communes of the Southeas,t and in some detention centers in the country [Grand-Gosier, Belle-Anse, Marigot, Cayes-Jacmel, La Vallée, Bainet and Côte-de-Fer].
Gesny Jean, acting responsible for the Prison Administration of Jacmel, who welcomed the availability of drinking water in his establishment, has stressed the timeliness of this project. "It took two weeks between the site assessment by the technical team of LGF, the configuration design, and the installation and technical training of prison staff."
As for prisoners, it is with evident relief, that they are now using this precious liquid. "We are very relieved by the installation of this unit, because before we received erratically aquatab tablets to treat tap water," declared a young detainee.
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