Pentair Delivers Sustainable Access To Clean, Safe Water For More Than 1 Million People Around The World
March 20 2015 - 8:30AM
To commemorate World
Water Day 2015, Pentair joins private-public coalition as Founding
Partner to help ensure water security in Kenya with Africa's first
Water Fund
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - March 20, 2015
- As a global manufacturer with the resources, technologies
and expertise to make a positive impact in the world, Pentair is
pleased to announce that its Project Safewater efforts have
provided over 1 million people with sustainable, safe water
services around the world.
Through Project Safewater, the company's holistic
approach to providing safe water solutions to people in need,
Pentair collaborates with a range of partners with innovative
approaches - combining technology, micro-enterprise business
models, and scientific research - to provide sustainable access to
safe water. One such innovative collaboration is the Nairobi Water
Fund, Africa's first water fund to combat rising threats to food
security, water and energy supplies.
"Pentair is proud to be a founding partner of the
Nairobi Water Fund and, together with our partners, we aim to
improve the quality, quantity and reliability of freshwater
delivery to Nairobi's growing and underserved population," said
Randall J. Hogan, Pentair Chairman and CEO . "This collaborative
effort reflects our belief that safe water is a fundamental human
right, and one of the foundations of freedom and economic
development."
Launched today, in honor of World Water Day, March
22, 2015, the Nairobi Water Fund is designed to provide a sustained
water supply to a system that delivers water to over 9.3 million
people and to generate US$21.5 million in long term benefits to
Kenyan citizens including farmers and businesses. As a founding
partner, Pentair serves on the private-public Steering Committee
comprising The Nature Conservancy, Nairobi City Water and Sewerage
Company, Kenya Electricity Generating Company, International Center
for Tropical Agriculture, Tana and Athi Rivers Development
Authority and a coalition of other businesses.
Providing Sustainable, Safe Water
to 1 Million People
Since 2007, Pentair has implemented numerous Project Safewater
programs around the world, from Central America, to India and
Africa-helping to deploy sustainable water systems to provide
clean, safe drinking water to more than 1 million people. Current
initiatives include:
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Project Safewater Health Impact
Study in Colón,
Honduras: In 2014, Pentair commissioned a study to evaluate the
long-term impact and sustainability of its inaugural Project
Safewater efforts in Colón, Honduras. Between 2007 and 2010,
Pentair and Water Missions International developed and implemented
an innovative, improved approach to providing sustainable access to
safe water for 300,000 people in the region - combining
technology, micro-enterprise business models and scientific
research. An initial health impact study demonstrated a reduction
in illness resulting from waterborne diseases by 80 percent, and
visits to the local health clinics for diarrheal diseases have
dropped by over 50 percent. The follow-up study, which is expected
to be completed in 2015, is intended to confirm that the pediatric
diarrhea rates as well as the infant mortality rates of the region
were profoundly improved by the water and sanitation project.
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Safe Water Stations in
India: In 2011, Pentair helped to launch Safe Water
Network's first Station in Uttar Pradesh, India. With the local
groundwater contaminated with excess fluoride causing fluorosis (a
painful bone disorder) and other health problems, self-sufficient
Safe Water Stations treat contaminated water to World Health
Organization standards using Pentair's reverse osmosis technology
and sell water to community members at an affordable rate. Today,
80 Stations provide access to safe water to over 300,000 people.
One hundred percent of them cover their operating costs from water
revenue, contribute to a maintenance reserve, and operate at less
than 2 percent downtime, each important requirements for
sustainability. With renewed support from The Pentair Foundation in
2014, this model is being taken to scale throughout India.
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Collective Impact Effort in
Kibera, Kenya: Pentair, along with its partners, is helping to
bring clean, safe water to 15,000 residents of Kibera, an
impoverish settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, over the next two years.
The revenues from the micro-enterprise business model will not only
sustain the water system, but also help fund the Kibera School for
Girls, thereby creating an integrated link between clean water,
girls' education and community development. In doing so, the
organizations hope to reduce by half the incidents of waterborne
disease in the same community. This effort was announced by Pentair
in late 2013, as a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global
Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in partnership with Shining Hope
for Communities and the Starkey Hearing Foundation. In 2014 Pentair
engineers doubled the volume the existing water supply system
delivered to the community. Project partners are now designing an
expanded system that is expected to provide six times the current
water volume capacity, while avoiding some of the persistent
problems that have plagued water projects in Kibera in the past,
including theft and contamination.
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Clean Water Access Initiative
in Democratic Republic of the Congo: Pentair and Action Against
Hunger are concluding the three-year Clean Water Access
Initiative-providing access to clean, safe water to thousands in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Through this endeavor, Action
Against Hunger and Pentair have protected 32 springs and built 13
water networks to improve access to clean water for more than
75,000 people. As a result, the risk and incidence of waterborne
diseases such as cholera has been reduced in the provinces of
Bandundu and South Kivu.
To learn more about Pentair's efforts in water technology
innovations and safe water programs, visit www.pentair.com.
ABOUT PENTAIR PLC
Pentair plc (www.pentair.com) delivers
industry-leading products, services and solutions for its
customers' diverse needs in water and other fluids, thermal
management and equipment protection. With 2014 revenues of $7.0
billion, Pentair employs approximately 30,000 people worldwide.
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Media Contact:
Rebecca Osborn - Pentair Communications
Direct: +1 763 656 5589
Email: rebecca.osborn@pentair.com
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