Tokyo Cement Group recently expanded its ‘Fountain of Life’ project by gifting purified drinking water facilities to the people of Siyambalagaswewa in Mihintale.
The Company installed a customised water purification system with Reverse Osmosis Technology, with an output capacity of 5,000 litres a day, to nearly 650 villagers in Siyambalagaswewa.
The water purification project was opened by Director, Tokyo Eastern Cement Company and General Manager, Tokyo Cement Factory, V.M. Ravinthirakumar with Mr. and Mrs. K. Nanayakkara of Keerthi Traders, Anuradhapura and J.M. Thirimanna of New Grand Distributors, Anuradhapura, representing the Tokyo Cement Group’s dealer network. The Mihindu Grama Sanwardana Samithiya of Siyambalagaswewa, under the guidance of the Rural Development Department of North Central Provincial Council, extended their fullest cooperation to Tokyo Cement Group to implement the project successfully.
Managing Director of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC, S.R. Gnanam, in a statement noted, “The project is implemented in selected rural parts of our country, where good quality water is critically important to save thousands of lives.”