Ramanathapuram
Hae Chun Company Limited, a South Korea-based water exploration company, has offered to launch ‘sustainable drinking ground water resource project’ in this drought-prone district to provide potable drinking water and permanently address the drinking water crisis.
Accompanied by actor Karunas, representing Thiruvadanai Assembly constituency, Prof Moon Ho Lee and Ajit Sharma, heads of the company, met Collector S. Natarajan here on Monday and explained the project of digging deep bore wells to make available sustainable potable water.
Detailing the project after a meeting with the Collector, Mr. Sharma, also Director of Global Proxima, a Delhi-based company, said that a special and new technology would be used to find the exact location of water resources and assess the quantum of water.
Prof Lee of Yeungnam University owned the patent for the new technology, he said.
“We will locate and detect the source after magnetic and electrical scanning of the surface and data analysis,” he said, adding they would also be able to assess the quantity of water that would last for at least 10 years. They had done projects outside India and this would be their maiden project after the pilot project done in a drought prone district in Maharashtra, he said.
Mr. Karunas said they met Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development S.P. Velumani before visiting the district.
The Collector was receptive to the project and agreed to take it up with the government. “The project would be a boon to several drought-prone districts in the State,” he claimed.
Each bore well would cost about ₹70 lakh and four such wells would be enough to cater to the drinking water needs of the constituency and permanently address the drinking water crisis, he said.
Each well is guaranteed for 10 years and would supply 10 lakh litres of water a day, he added. The project would be launched after the government gave its consent, he said.
