Indian aircraft arrives to ease Malé water crisis
05 Dec 2014, 2:38 PM
Daniel Bosley
Additional reporting by Mariyath Mohamed, Ismail Humaam Hamid, and Ahmed Naish
An Indian aircraft has landed in the Maldives capital Malé to alleviate in the continuing water crisis, as the government reveals it could take between three and five days to restore the capital’s water supply.
The first flight landed at Ibrahim Nasir International Airport at 1:15pm, with two additional flights expected to bring a total of 100 tonnes of fresh water for the people 130,000 inhabitants of the Maldives’ capital.
Minister of Defence Colonel (retired) Mohamed Nazim has announced that damage to the Malé Water and Sewerage Company’s (MWSC) reverse osmosis plant could mean it is five days before normal service can be resumed.
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