Title: Austin Ruffing
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- Austin Ruffing
- Procter Gamble
2The World Water Crisis
- Almost 1 billion people without access to clean
water - Many rivers too polluted to support life
- 1.8 million people lose their lives from diarrhea
caused by unsafe drinking water - 50 of hospital beds occupied because of
water-related diseases
3Water is a Womans Issue
- Women spend 40 billion hours hauling water
- Average African woman walks 4 miles a day to
collect water - Women are responsible for children who are sick
and dying - More than 50 of deaths of women with HIV/AIDS in
Africa is from diarrhea - Leading women are starting to mobilize around
water as a womans cause
4Why Household Drinking Water?
- 4,000 children die every day from water-borne
disease more than HIV/AIDS, malaria measles
combined - CDC and PG collaboration helped demonstrate that
household water treatment can improve health - PUR Purifier of Water technology developed to
address this issue
5PG and CDC Collaboration
Studies in Guatemala identified an unmet need
- Consumers desired visual signal that water is
being cleaned - Technical need for improved effectiveness in
highly turbid waters
6PUR Purifier of Water
- Reverse engineered current municipal water
treatment process - Small sachet to treat 10 liters of water using
coagulation, flocculation and disinfection - Uses same ingredients used in municipal systems
- Calcium Hypochlorite as Disinfectant
- Ferric Sulfate as Coagulant
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9PUR Laboratory and Field Testing
- Very effective in visually cleaning dirty water
- Effective in killing bacteria (gt99.99999) and
viruses (gt99.99) that cause typhoid, cholera,
and hepatitis - Effective in removing chlorine resistant
parasites like giardia and cryptosporidium
(gt99.9) - Effective reduction in heavy metals
- (e.g. arsenic and lead),
- organics, and
- pesticides
10PUR Health Intervention Studies
Six studies, More than 25,000 People showed
Average Diarrhea Reduction of 50
- Diarrhea Reduction
- - Guatemala (2 Studies, Rural)
- - Kenya (Turbid water)
- - Pakistan (Urban)
- - Liberia (Refugee camp)
- Arsenic Removal
- - Bangladesh
11PG Childrens Safe Drinking Water Program
- PGs global cause PG Live, Learn and Thrive
focuses on the development of children in need,
ages 0-13, - The Childrens Safe Drinking Water program is our
signature global program - CSDW is a not-for-profit program with two focus
areas social markets and emergency response
12Emergency Relief
- PUR is easy to transport, shown to be well
accepted used correctly in emergencies - Distributed in most major disasters - tsunami,
floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, cholera
outbreaks in Africa - Global partners include
- AmeriCares
- CARE
- Catholic Relief Services
- IFRC (Red Cross)
- Population Services International (PSI)
- UNICEF
- World Vision
13Social Market Approach
- Work with international social marketing experts
including PSI, CARE - Work with community based groups, schools,
clinics to create habit change - Social and brand marketing to create issue and
product awareness - Existing programs in 12 countries, more to launch
in 2010-11
14School Programs World Vision Malawi
- PUR provided in schools and sold by local women
in community - 53 decrease in diarrhea disease among community
- Absenteeism dropped by 57
- Pit latrine coverage increased by 75
- CSDW has reached more than 1 million children in
schools
15PUR Helps People with HIV/AIDS
- PUR removes chlorine resistant parasites that are
fatal to people living with AIDS - PUR is helping thousands of people daily to live
positively with HIV/AIDS like Jemima Odo
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PG CSDW Efforts to Date
- 12 Social market countries
- Emergency relief provided in
gt50 countries - Delivered 2.1 billion liters
- Helped save over 11,000 lives
- Prevented over 85 million days of diarrhea
- Goal of 4 billion liters of clean drinking water
by 2012
182010 Contributions to Raising Awareness
- Peoples Choice Awards
- Summit on the Summit Kilimanjaro
- SOS Haiti Relief Concert Beneficiary
- Give PUR Water brandSAVER
- New CSDW/PG Brand Partnerships
- - PUR Water Filtration
- - CoverGirl
- - Replay Fragrances
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20How You Can Help
- Tell your family friends about water issues
around the world - Write a letter to your Representative encourage
them to support water issues - Conduct a fundraiser to support water programs in
developing countries
1 gives a child clean water for 50 days 7.50
gives a child clean water for 1 year 30 gives a
family clean water for 1 year
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22- Follow CSDW on Twitter _at_DrGregAllgood
- CSDW on Facebook _at_Childrens Safe Drinking Water
23- Donations
- www.CSDW.org
- free change?
- The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
24Thank you!