At the handover ceremony on 5 th December, Mr. Ashraf Dhali, Secretary of Had Baliaghata Para Water Supply Committee (BWSC), said: “When I heard that a group was providing arsenic safe water in Panjia, I met Chairman of the Ward Arsenic Mitigation Committee (AMC) with some other villagers and explained to him how we struggled to fetch arsenic safe water walking a low muddy road which is flooded every year. It is unbelievable that AAN has extended its hand to us with a DTW which was not planned originally. We will remember AAN and will keep the DTW nicely from today onwards.”

Mr. Jafar Ullah, Upazila Nirabahi Officer (UNO), Dr. Shubodh Kumar Kundu, Keshabpur Upazila Health & Family Planning Officer, Mr. Nizam Uddin, Chairman of Panjia Union Parishad, Mr. Nirmol Kumar Karmokar, a Union Parishad (UP) Member, and Mr. Mohir Uddin, member of Water Development Board of Jessore District and ex-UP Member, were also present at the ceremony to celebrate the inauguration of the DTW. UNO Mr. Jafar Ullah emphasized in his speech that users' participation is the most important thing for sustainability.

At the end of the ceremony, Mr. Jafar Ullah presented the BWSC Secretary with the Certificate of Ownership, and Union Chairman Mr. Nizam Uddin with a tool bag. Also, Dr. Shubodh handed over one-month medicine to an arsenicosis patient.

During the tube well screening in the village in April 2005, it was found that there were only two arsenic-safe tube wells and the remaining 45 tube wells in Had were painted red to warn the villagers not to drink. In the Baliaghata para all the nine shallow tube wells were painted red. They had to walk about 500m to the nearest DTW if they wanted to fetch safe drinking water. Due to the bad condition of the muddy road during the rainy season, however, they were forced to use contaminated water (0.3mg/L) about 4 to 5 months. It was the Members of Ward and Union AMCs who recommended AAN to install an arsenic safe water device in Baliaghata, and villagers selected a DTW as their safe water device.

The newly installed DTW is 738 feet in depth and the hole between the pipe and drilled soil wall was successfully sealed with cement. It will supply safe drinking water to about 54 families in Baliaghata Para of Had village.