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USAToday.com
December 23, 2011
Charities Give Christmas Gift of Water
Clean, accessible water for the world's poor is one of the hottest causes of the season. December donors who open their hearts and wallets will send millions of dollars flowing to villages and urban slums in Africa, South Asia and Central America. And, drop by drop, lives are changed. Countless children are spared killer waterborne diseases. Countless women are spared backbreaking hours fetching water in 40-pound, 5-gallon plastic jugs.
There are dozens of water-focused charities touted on websites, in Christmas-themed catalogs and at social events such as a sold-out, celebrity-packed Manhattan charity ball last week.
They've honed the message — water is critical to health and social and economic development for nearly 900 million people — in a way that it can compete for urgent attention with hunger, malaria, HIV/AIDS and refugee aid.
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"Dr. Sloan Inspects Fresh Water Well Site in Senegal
Where he Initiated and Completed Over 150 Wells"
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Gunderboom is proud to have Dr. George W. (Doc) Sloan as Chairman of Environmental Programs.
Our collaborative mission is to combine Dr. Sloan's 50 year campaign to provide fresh water and humane health care to the world with various technologies, Gunderboom's included, to accelerate the provision of the most critical element of life to needing people - Fresh Water.
Dr. Sloan started this campaign and mission with the location and construction of 158 wells in Africa more than 20 years ago and has now teamed with Gunderboom and Monitor Instruments to elevate the capabilities to include state-of-the-art, real time water quality monitoring with passive filtering techniques that can be utilized without the need for large power requirements, complicated maintenance or technical skills that are frequently not available in locations where the capability is needed most.
Our collaborative team can implement Fresh Water programs worldwide on a complete turn-key basis.
Dr. Sloan works with many organizations to help fund these programs and the recent article in USA Today embodies the most recent efforts to carry on Doc's approach to the growing problem of providing fresh water to the people in most need. (View Article in USAToday.com) There are numerous studies on the topic, but it is generally accepted worldwide that the provision of clean, fresh drinking water to the general population could have profound and lasting benefits of good health by virtue of the significant reduction in the transmission of infectious disease.
Dr. Sloan can provide further information about the programs and contacts for organizations where donations can be made towards these critical efforts at gwsloan@gunderboom.com, or contact us at info@gunderboom.com, or by phone at the main office where Mr. Hal Dreyer will assist at 407-548-2222.
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