Helping to solve the global water crisis
Colon, Honduras

In search of a solution to the global water crisis, the Pentair Foundation funded a multi-year, $4.7 million Project Safewater-Colon research program in remote Colon, Honduras. The goal: to determine whether people in developing countries can be provided with access to sustainable sources of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities – quickly and affordably.

The scientific data gathered on Project Safewater-Colon’s effectiveness and health impact proved that for only pennies a day per person, people can have access to safe drinking water in regions where they don’t have it now.

Project Safewater-Colon shows that the world’s safe drinking water crisis is solvable. Through Project Safewater-Colon, Pentair is helping to address the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal Number 7C, which calls for cutting in half the proportion of the world’s population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.  

More than one billion people around the world, most of them in developing nations, lack access to safe water. The result is that preventable waterborne diseases continue to be a leading cause of illness and death globally. Every day, approximately 25,000 people, mainly children in developing countries, die from preventable waterborne diseases, according to the World Health Organization.

The Pentair Foundation is making its Project Safewater-Colon findings publicly available for other organizations and municipalities interested in replicating this cost-effective model to bring clean, safe water to people in need. For more information on Project Safewater-Colon, visit www.projectsafewater.com.

Pentair is leading the way to find a sustainable solution to the global water crisis.

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