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Global Safe Water Crisis

Through its new safe water initiative, International Aid is working to help address a global public health crisis of enormous urgency and scale. Water contamination is closely linked to bacterial, parasitic and other waterborne diseases, especially cholera and diarrhea; it is estimated that 80 percent of all disease is waterborne. Read More

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Myles D. Fish

International Aid President & Chief Executive Officer

James Bodenner

International Aid Director of Water Initiatives

Mark D. Sobsey, Ph.D.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Press Releases

• International Aid Launches Global Safe Water Initiative, Unveils Portable Biosand Filter for Use in Developing World

Multimedia

• Existing Cement Filter [mov]
• Filter Product Design [mov]
• International Aid [mov]

Image Library

• Honduran Faces
• Honduran Faces-More
• Honduran Landscapes
• Honduran Water Project
• IA Medical Mission Honduras Originals
• IA Team in Honduras
• Sifting Gravel Originals

Partners, Research, & Fact Sheets

• Partners
• Research
• Water filter product description

Download Safe Water Initiative Fact Sheet

How does International Aid's New Filter Work?

View an animation of the BioSand filter

Water Related Links

View all water related links

Media Contact

Members of the press interested in more information about International Aid's new safe water initiative are invited to contact:

Bruce Buursma
Communications Director
(616) 935-3624
buursmab@internationalaid.org

If you are a member of a humanitarian, faith-based, governmental or educational institution seeking additional information about International Aid's safe water initiative, please contact International Aid at (800) 251-2502.