KnowHow 1-2011 - Pentair

WMI currently operates water quality and
sanitation programs in nine countries –
Honduras, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi,
Mexico, Indonesia, Haiti, Peru and Belize.
“Our grant to Water Missions International
will benefit countless lives by speeding
access to sustainable, safe drinking water
sources globally,” said Randall J. Hogan,
Pentair’s chairman and chief executive
officer. “Through our previous work with
WMI on Project Safewater-Colón, we have
shown that there is an affordable solution
to the global water crisis. We look forward
to applying what we’ve learned to further
improve health and sanitation conditions
in communities around the world.”
Pentair has collaborated with WMI since
2007. In that time, Pentair’s Project
Safewater initiative with WMI in Colón,
Honduras, demonstrated that for only
pennies a day per person, it’s possible
to provide people with access to safe
drinking water in regions where they don’t
have it now. As a result, approximately
300,000 people in Colón now have access
to sustainable, safe water and sanitation
facilities, along with a related 80 percent
reduction in waterborne diseases.
“As impressive as our progress in
Honduras has been, there is still more
work to be done, more lives to improve
and more communities to transform,”
said Hogan. “We can make a difference in
the global water crisis.”
Water Missions International, headquartered
in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, is a
nonprofit engineering organization serving
the water and sanitation needs of people in
developing countries and disaster areas. It
uses low-maintenance, appropriate water
technologies for drinking water treatment
and distribution, wastewater management
and storm water control.
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