{"id":7907,"date":"2025-11-12T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/2025\/11\/12\/mobile-water-treatment-for-disadvantaged-communities-in-the-sundarbans\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:44:20","slug":"mobile-water-treatment-for-disadvantaged-communities-in-the-sundarbans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/2025\/11\/12\/mobile-water-treatment-for-disadvantaged-communities-in-the-sundarbans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile water treatment for disadvantaged communities in the Sundarbans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the remote islands of the Indian Sundarbans, families often have no access to safe drinking water. Disasters such as cyclones and floods further exacerbate the situation. This situation forces people to consume contaminated water, which can lead to serious health problems.<\/p>\n<p>The installation of a reverse osmosis water treatment system on a boat is an innovative solution: The mobile unit supplies around 5,000 people with purified drinking water, even in disaster situations. At the same time, the project serves as a social entrepreneurial model with scaling potential in the region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7896\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7895 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.22.11_8c2bc618-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.22.11_8c2bc618-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.22.11_8c2bc618-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.22.11_8c2bc618-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.22.11_8c2bc618-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.22.11_8c2bc618.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inauguration in November 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7898\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7897 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.20.13_d3f4a752-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.20.13_d3f4a752-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.20.13_d3f4a752-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.20.13_d3f4a752-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Bild-2025-11-10-um-21.20.13_d3f4a752.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inauguration in November 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Project no.:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02025-007<\/p>\n<p>Funding country:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 India<\/p>\n<p>Funding location:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sandeshkhali, Rupamari, Hingalganj &#8211; West Bengal<\/p>\n<p>Funding year:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2025 &#8211; 2026<\/p>\n<p>Project partner: <a href=\"https:\/\/soceo.de\/\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Soceo gGmbH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local organization: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitharidisha.org.in\/\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bithari Disha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the remote islands of the Indian Sundarbans, families often have no access to safe drinking water. Disasters such as cyclones and floods further exacerbate the situation. This situation forces people to consume contaminated water, which can lead to serious health problems. The installation of a reverse osmosis water treatment system on a boat is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}