It Is Important That Everybody Can Have Access to Healthy Drinking Water
Szöveg: Sándor Galambos | 2013. április 17. 15:02Water gives life, and we give water. To make healthy drinking water available for every citizen of Hungary! The government has assigned us this task, and the Hungarian Defence Forces are ready to carry it out – Defence Minister Csaba Hende said in Kiskőrös on April 16.
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the Ministry of Defence, the fiftieth water purification and water dispenser container has been
handed over in Kiskőrös. Thanks to the equipment, from now on the townspeople can have
access to healthy and controlled water simply and easily. At the ceremony, Minister Hende
reminded his audience that the Hungarian Defence Forces have long had such mobile devices,
since supplying the soldiers with healthy potable water is one of the keys to successful
military operations.
The Minister of Defence stressed that “thanks to a 100 per cent state-owned Hungarian world
patent, we are now making these military capabilities available to the civilian population."
Zoltán Mátyus, the technical manager of Kőrösvíz Ltd. told us that they have long been
waiting for the installation of this water purification container. Arsenic contamination of the
municipal wells exceeds more than twice the limit value set by the European Union – 14
thousand people have so far drunk arsenic-contaminated water here. Anett Andriska, a leaver
of the local Wattay secondary school also said she considered it important that everybody
– especially infants and children – can have access to healthy drinking water. Speaking on
behalf of the local retired HDF personnel, Jánosné Fábi thanked for the installation of the
container. As she noted, they were frightened on hearing that the children were forbidden
from drinking tap water in the schools of the town. Bagged water and water transported by
tankers have also been good solutions, but the present situation is much more comfortable,
because now people can fetch healthy water from this container 24 hours a day.
The government has allocated HUF 5.7 billion to the Ministry of Defence so that such
filtering containers can be installed in the concerned communities as a temporary solution
to replace the supply of water by means of bags and tankers, which has been going on since
January 1. This sum makes it possible to provide residents with access to healthy drinking
water in all concerned areas of Hungary. The final solution, however, will be the filtering
devices fitted on the waterworks wells – when healthy water will also flow from the taps. The
Hungarian Defence Forces are ready to participate in carrying out this task as well.
Photo: Tünde Rácz
