Navy Commander opens Reverse Osmosis plant in Thalawa

A Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant, an intiative of the Sri lanka Navy(SLN) was installed and opened on Friday at Thalawa Maha . This is another of the Navy's community service programmes to prevent Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD), Making use of the latest technology, the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne joined the opening ceremony of the RO plant online.

The Navy's Research and Development Unit utilized their expertise and technical know-how to install this RO plant in the Thalawa area, where a high prevalence of CKD ease) is recorded. Over 1800 children, and150 teachers of Thalawa Maha Vidyalaya and 350 families in the area will benefit from the Navy's gesture.

Addressing the gathering online, Vice Admiral Wijegunaratne promised to setup 50 more Reverse Osmosis plants which are made according to the highest standard but at a relatively low cost by the Navy's Research and Development Unit, to fulfil the safe drinking water requirement of school children in North Central Province.

He said the Navy's Research and Development Unit was taking the initiative to invent a mobile RO plant for school children in the Padaviya and Sripura areas and also to invent of solar powered RO plants instead of the electric ones, in the future.

The ceremony was attended by the Sangha, the Commander North Central Naval Area, Commodore Merril Wickramasinghe, principal, teachers and school children of Thalawa Maha Vidyalaya including a large number of residents in the area.