PUR

Introduction:Keith Zook, my good friend and long time second in command on P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water program, traveled to Pakistan in August to work with our production plant and social market and disaster relief partners. Th...

We’ve learned that safe drinking water is critical for people who have HIV/AIDS because they are prone to opportunistic infections from contaminated water that can make them persistently sick and can be fatal. ...

I’m in eastern Ethiopia with Henock Gazahegn of PSI. PSI is doing a great job here in providing safe drinking water with the PUR packets. ...

We just participated in the 5th Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and made our biggest commitment ever. P&G, through our Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program, is committed to providing 4 billion liters of safe drinking water in the developing world by 2012. ...

Twitter: @DrGregAllgood I often feel that I’m climbing a metaphorical mountain in leading our Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program. We...

I’ve been asked to start Twittering in addition to blogging. I’m brand new at this, but I’m intrigued with the idea of “microblogging” via Twitter and of having a dialogue with people interested in our Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program. You can fi...

I’m in Malawi to visit the work of one of our newest partners. We’ve been working with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for quite some time but with the School of Public Health and the Kenan Flagler Business School. Th...

I’m back in Malawi. It’s been more than a year since I visited Malawi. During my last visit, I visited some of the school programs conducted by World Vision in collaboration with PSI. On...

I’m looking forward to today because we’re visiting households that have benefitted from use of the PUR packets provided by World Vision in rural Zimbabwe. We’re headed deep into the rural area. I’m ...

I’m sure you’ve heard about the deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe this year. It made world news. Thousands of people died. The deteriorating infrastructure caused by the political unrest in Zimbabwe and the collapsing economy had resulted in horrible water conditions. Th...

I’m up long before daybreak to catch the first flight from Dar es Salaam to Tabora, Tanzania. I’ll visit the Millennium Village Program (MVP) efforts to provide PUR as one of our partners of the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program. We...

Our Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program continues to expand and our latest country is Tanzania. I spend some time with our distributor, Segerea Pharmacy, in Dar es Salam meeting potential partners. ...

Today I’m visiting a research study in progress. The idea for this study started with discussions that I had with Jeff Albert of Aquaya Institute while on a long car ride in Borneo, Indonesia. ...

I’m in rural western Kenya to check on several of our activities in the area. This is the area where we’ve been providing PUR for the longest amount of time, since September 03, and there’s lot going on in the area. I start the morning with Jeff Albert of the Aquaya Institute. We f...