The Jana Jala Sanitation Community Organisation with its head office in Arachchikattuwa in the Puttlam district, won a Gold Medal at the World Water Day celebrations at the BMICH recently.The organisation received the medal for its yeoman service on sanitation and water supply to local communities, numbering 10,000, who had suffered immensely over many decades due to the acute shortage of drinking water and the resultant constant ailments. Apart from providing drinking water, the organisation extended loans of Rs. 15,000 to a family, out of the revenue it had generated, to hundreds of families to engage in self-employment ventures.At the International Water Day celebrations in 2017, the organisations won an award for the best maintained water treatment plant.
