UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 2 July 2008 -- The efforts of a Wisconsin-based Rotary Club (the Holmen Rotary Club) are contributing to the provision of clean, safe drinking water to hundreds if not perhaps thousands of people in a poor section of Lima, Peru.

The club, which is barely a year old, elected to take on its first international project after learning about a proposed project from a Rotary Club in Lima that was seeking assistance in getting water filters to an extremely poor section of the city.

Dean McHugh, the chairman of the club’s international committee, had visited Peru a number of times with his wife who is from the country.  His contact at the Rotary Club in Lima had connections in Wisconsin via Oshkosh Truck.  So the project involving the two clubs became a good match.

The project entails creating and distributing 250 bio-sand water filters which can filter about 10 gallons of water per hour.  The bio-sand water filters use biological agents and a thick layer of fine sand to filter the water. The filters represent a relatively simple and affordable solution.

The filters can be used by households as well as schools, orphanages and other institutions.

Helping to provide clean water to better address the Millennium Development Goals set up by the UN is one of Rotary International’s top causes. The Holmen Rotary Club raised US$7,100 for this particular Peruvian initiative which was then matched by the Rotary District. Additional funding was secured from the Rotary Foundation.

The funds will be sent to Peru shortly where a local company has been contracted to create the filters. 

The Holmen Rotary Club is now planning to explore the development of another water project for CY2009.

Labels: United Nations, U.N., MaximsNews WATER, water, Rotary Club, Peru, Wisconsin, drinking water, Dean McHugh, water filter, Kathy Shandling, international development, environment, water news, water sustainability, water resource, water management, global water crisis, sustainable development

 

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