$5 Million Project Safewater for Cental America

Pentair announced that in honor of World Water Day 2017, its next Project Safewater initiative with Water Mission to deliver clean, safe drinking water and sanitation to 150,000 people in Central America.

The project expands upon the two organizations' first collaborative effort, which saw the successful implementation of scalable, sustainable safe water and sanitation projects in the Department of Colón, Honduras.

"At Pentair, we believe that safe water is a fundamental human right, and one of the foundations of freedom and economic development," said Randall J. Hogan, chairman and chief executive officer of Pentair.

"The world's safe drinking water crisis is solvable, as demonstrated by the sustainable and cost-effective solution that we implemented as part of our first Project Safewater initiative with Water Mission in Colón, Honduras. Systems and technologies developed from that project are now being deployed around the world, and we are pleased to expand this effort to additional regions in Honduras."

Project Safewater Colón represents the largest scientifically documented water and sanitation project in Central America. The initial health impact study demonstrated reductions in illness resulting from waterborne diseases by 80 percent, and visits to the local health clinics for diarrheal diseases decreased by over 50 percent. In addition, a follow up study conducted in 2014 found that Colón's infant mortality rate fell twice as much as the national average, which translates to saving the lives of 40 children each year.

"Our studies on the Colón, Honduras project with Pentair demonstrated that, for just pennies per day-per person-we could dramatically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease and save lives," said George C. Greene III, Ph.D., P.E., chief executive officer of Water Mission. "In addition to the health benefits, we now look to better understand and quantify the long-term economic and educational impacts that can result from access to clean, safe water."

A family stands with the latrine they received thanks to the Pentair Foundation’s partnership with Water Missions International. Source: Water Mission

The new Project Safewater initiative will focus on Lempira and Intibucá, two Departments in the western region of Honduras. Lempira and Intibucá have some of the highest percentages of people living in extreme poverty in Honduras and while access to water and sanitation is relatively high, it is generally not considered to be safely managed.

Pentair, Water Mission and local Honduran government organizations will work to deliver improvements in water quality, sanitation infrastructure and WASH (Water and Sanitation for Health) behaviors. Further, the organizations will measure not only the health-related impacts, but also the economic and educational improvements related to water and sanitation interventions.

To learn more about Pentair's Project Safewater efforts, as well as Pentair's wastewater and water reuse technologies, visit  pentair.com. 

Read more at: Globe Newswire

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• Water Scarcity
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• Water Access
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• Sanitation
• Access
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Water Supply
• Quality Maintenance
• Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

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