Councilor of Hithaadhoo in Baa Atoll Amir Abdul Latheef has claimed the island will run out of water over the weekend if the government does not provide it for them urgently.
Amir said the island office had reports that some people on the island had begun using well water for drinking and cooking, a practice banned by the Health Ministry twelve years ago due to the impurity of the ground water in the island.
”All the water tanks are now almost empty,” Amir said. ”We informed [the government] office one week ago. They said they would deliver water to us, but there has been no response after that.”
He said the islanders were worried over the issue and wondering what to do if the government did not provide aid for them.
He said there was a total population of 1222 people on the island of Hithaadhoo.
Councilor of Kihaadhoo in Baa Atoll Abdulla Naseem said some people on the island had also started using well water for cooking as there was not enough water on the island.
Naseem said the ground water of the island was impure due to sewerage.
”Fifty per-cent of the ground water is polluted while water from some areas is totally impure,” he said.
He said the island would run out of water in two to three months.
”We have already informed [the government] that we might run out of water,” he said. ”Last time the government provided 30,000 litres of water.”
He said 425 people lived on the Island of Kihaadhoo.
State minister for health Abdul Baary Abdulla said there was a long list of islands where the ministry had banned the use of water to drink and cook.
Baary said there were many diseases that could potentially result from the use of contaminated water, including diarrhoea, stomach ailments and skin diseases.
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