Press Release 2005 -

As part of its emergency relief efforts, Global Water is distributing 50,000 disinfection tablets for use in regions recently hit by natural disasters. The tablets will be dispensed primarily through medical clinics operated by Global Water’s humanitarian organization partners in developing countries. The tablets give rural populations the capability to disinfect water, as it’s needed, whenever water supplies are interrupted by such events as earthquakes, flooding and mudslides.

Global Water is an international non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-governmental humanitarian organization committed to the development of safe water supplies and related health programs. We believe the lack of safe water supplies is the root cause of hunger, disease, and poverty throughout the world today. Global Water’s focus enables it to help people help themselves in developing countries. We are making a difference one glass of safe water at a time.

Global Water provides program management, technical assistance, and funding for water supply projects in rural areas impacted by drought and natural disasters. Technical assistance takes the form of consulting and supervision, as well as material support, such as equipment and supplies.

Besides its current emergency relief efforts, Global Water’s focus is to create permanent solutions to a region’s water needs by providing appropriate equipment (to include state-of-the-art technology). This includes well drilling equipment to drill new water wells to allow rural populations access to safe, clean groundwater, and to purify, store, and distribute new sources of water for domestic uses (drinking, cooking, and hygiene), as well as agricultural purposes.

Since 1981, Global Water has worked with water supply projects all over the world in a variety of roles in order to accommodate site-specific needs. Through our Technical Advisory Committee and partnerships with other humanitarian organizations, we have a network of experts and equipment that can be mobilized to provide support for water problems around the world.

Finding areas in need is definitely not a problem. Since installing the Global Water Web Site last year, we receive e-mails every week from people around the world who need help creating new water supplies or with purifying water supplies that have become contaminated. For instance, last year, Global Water was initially contacted through its Web Site by a couple whom had just visited a Romanian orphanage without a water supply. Global Water helped arrange for a local well driller to survey the site and install a new well for the orphanage. Since money was not available for this project, the couple who identified the problem actually paid for the well out of their own pocket.

If you’d like more information about Global Water and its water supply projects, please see our Web Site at www.globalwater.org