Photo Gallery Clean Water for Burma
Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis, many survivors in Burma still have no access to clean water.
Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis, many survivors still have no access to clean water. The German Federal Agency for Technical Relief is trying to get water treatment plants into operation in Burma -- but the junta is hampering their efforts.
Foto: DPA
Ewald Nagel from the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW): "The government has not yet given our staff permission to leave Rangoon."
Foto: THW
The THW has sent six water treatment plants -- seen here being loaded onto a plane in Germany -- to Burma. If the junta allows them to be put into operation, they could provide clean water for tens of thousands of people.
Foto: THW
There is a high risk of epidemics breaking out if cyclone survivors do not get clean water soon.
Foto: THW
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