- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Each morning, Kamarunisa Poovummada sips her cup of tea while watching waves from the Arabian Sea crash around a water treatment plant opposite her house on Kavaratti island, off India‘s southwest coast. She links the taste of her perfectly brewed cup to the desalination plant that has brought potable water to the doorsteps of islanders, and almost erased the memory of the brackish tea she hurriedly swallowed down until a decade ago. “We first noticed the difference when we saw the golden colour of the tea as we strained it into our cups,” Poovummada recalled. “And then we tasted the tea…
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