P&G delivers 7 billionth liter of clean drinking water
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Non Profit
Procter and gamble (p&g) announced recently that its non-profit children's safe drinking water program (csdw) provided its 7 billionth liter of clean drinking water to a family in brazil as part of p&g's clinton global initiative (cgi) commitment to save one life every hour by the year 2020.
the 7 billionth liter donation marks the expansion of csdw into brazil with implementation partner childfund. since its inception in 2004 csdw has worked with a global network of more than 140 advocacy and implementation partners to help save an estimated 39000 lives by providing clean drinking water during emergencies and in sustained community programs.
'the most basic thing is clean water and through their cgi commitment to action p&g has now provided a liter of clean water for every person on the planet which is an astonishing thing" said former us president bill clinton.
'when witnessing the transformation of contaminated drinking water treated by the p&g packets this is one of the simplest quickest things we can do to save the lives of children under 5 years old."
p&g is proud to reach this milestone of delivering 7 billion liters of clean water to children and families. together with our partners we are providing a simple to use but life-changing solution" said allison tummon kamphuis p&g children's safe drinking water leader.
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