A few have small fiberglass boats fitted with engines. Except for a few, most houses in Udappuva are actually huts made with coconut leaf thatching which provides inadequate shelter against either the sun or the rain. Usually during the rainy season the area is flooded. About 75 percent of the houses lack any toilet facilities. A big issue in the village is clean drinking water.
Most housewives have to walk miles in search of water as the whole village has only two wells.
One is inside the hospital premises and the other is within the police compound. But it was abandoned. In 1993 there was big talk about the fisheries ministry launching a 9.3 million-rupee water scheme. But that too was abandoned. Although the present Peoples Alliance government has started a pipe-borne water supply scheme, they are attempting to hoodwink people.