The Ampara Water Sourcing Project will provide water infrastructure for families that were affected by the 2004 tsunami. Because of the critical nature of the water needs in the target communities, ADRA Sri Lanka will provide the communities with drinking water through water trucking in the early stages of the project while developing more permanent water infrastructure. The project will build on the successes of ADRA’s water projects in southern Sri Lanka since the Tsunami to provide the water infrastructure require for communities in Pottuvil, Arugam Bay, Komari, Panama, and Lahugala.

Project beneficiaries include communities living in areas that have been directly affected by the tsunami as well as areas where relocated survivors of the tsunami have been accommodated in housing schemes built by other local and international NGOs.

ADRA Sri Lanka is still in the initial stages of the project since its approval in August 2006. In this initial stage, ADRA is networking with various levels of government and other NGOs working in the area in order to ensure the success of a sustainable water program. In addition to bringing clean and safe water to target communities, it is ADRA Sri Lanka’s goal that the Ampara Water Sourcing Project will bring about sustainable community development that will empower communities to face the challenges ahead of them in the areas of water and sanitation.