KnowHow 1-2012 - Pentair

p e n t a i r f o u n d a t i o nPENTAIR FOUNDATION PROVIDES$1 MILLION GRANT TO WATERMISSIONS INTERNATIONAL TOFUND SAFE DRINKING WATERPROJECTS WORLDWIDEby BETSY DAY betsy.day@pentair.comMore than one billion people worldwide – roughly one out of every seven –have no choice but to use unsafe, contaminated water. To help solve this issue,the Pentair Foundation is providing a five-year grant totaling $1 million tothe non-profit Water Missions International (WMI). The multi-year grant willfund the implementation of clean water and sanitation projects in developingcountries, further building on the work of Pentair’s Project Safewater initiativewith WMI.WMI currently operates water quality andsanitation programs in nine countries –Honduras, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi,Mexico, Indonesia, Haiti, Peru and Belize.“Our grant to Water Missions Internationalwill benefit countless lives by speedingaccess to sustainable, safe drinking watersources globally,” said Randall J. Hogan,Pentair’s chairman and chief executiveofficer. “Through our previous work withWMI on Project Safewater-Colón, we haveshown that there is an affordable solutionto the global water crisis. We look forwardto applying what we’ve learned to furtherimprove health and sanitation conditionsin communities around the world.”Pentair has collaborated with WMI since2007. In that time, Pentair’s ProjectSafewater initiative with WMI in Colón,Honduras, demonstrated that for onlypennies a day per person, it’s possibleto provide people with access to safedrinking water in regions where they don’thave it now. As a result, approximately300,000 people in Colón now have accessto sustainable, safe water and sanitationfacilities, along with a related 80 percentreduction in waterborne diseases.“As impressive as our progress inHonduras has been, there is still morework to be done, more lives to improveand more communities to transform,”said Hogan. “We can make a difference inthe global water crisis.”Water Missions International, headquarteredin Charleston, South Carolina, USA, is anonprofit engineering organization servingthe water and sanitation needs of people indeveloping countries and disaster areas. Ituses low-maintenance, appropriate watertechnologies for drinking water treatmentand distribution, wastewater managementand storm water control.04 k now how 2012 k now how 2012 05