Binatone provides rural water plant

Binatone-Ghana has installed its rural water plant in the Central Region to provide clean potable water to residents.

The initiative, which is under a project dubbed ” Project MAJI” uses solar power to pump water from deep boreholes with no reliance on outside sources of power making this unit both independent and sustainable.

It is capable of pumping water from deeper sources, run the water through a filtration system and provide up to 10,000 litres of clean potable water to the people every day.

The Chief Executive Officer and founder of Project Maji, Sunil Lalvani, said “We are excited to have undertaken this social responsibility project with the aim of liberating the communities from the scarcity of potable water and its associated diseases.”

He continued that “this venture started, after reading a couple of articles about water issues in Africa that enlightened and encouraged me by continuing to research more on the subject and became appalled by the injustice of water poverty. I became somewhat passionate to do something about it. Using my business background and experience in the electronics industry,” he said.

“What concerned me most during the research phase was the amount of hand pumps that had been deployed in villages that had been dysfunctional during my visit to the community. I made it a core goal of “Project MAJI” not to only provide and install water plants, but also to maintain them,” he added.

The newly installed water plant is the second sustainable rural water plant project launched in Antsenbua number two, a village under the Komenda District in the Central Region.

This follows the successful installation of the first plant in Atentan under the Assin Foso North District of the Central Region of Ghana on World Water Day.

The Managing Director of Binatone-Ghana, Mr Venu Babu, said the gesture was part of the company’s corporate social responsibility. Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural development , Mr Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, acknowledged the need for such interventions, especially in rural areas, and called for more public private partnership appreciating that the government was unable to achieve that level of penetration on its own.

Dr Stephen Nana Ato Arthur,Member of Parliament for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem(KEEA),the chief of the area thanked “Project Maji” and Binatone for this social project.