Proctor & Gamble Provide Pur Water to Pakistan

Working with the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency s for International Development, Proctor & Gamble Co. is providing 28 million packets of Pur water treatments to flood victims in Pakistan.  The $2 million effort should provide 280 million liters of clean drinking water in Pakistan.  

USAID will provide $1 million, the State Department's Pakistan Relief Fund, which is funded by private citizens, will provide $500,000 and P&G will provide more than $500,000 worth of Pur packets, buckets and filter cloths to treat the water.

A Pakistani man carries a kitten he rescued from the
flooded village of Kaipur Nathan Shah village, Sindh
province on Sept 18, 2010.  Floodwaters continue
to rise in parts of the south.

 

 

 

Also, Pakistan is the only site where P & G manufacturers Pur packets.  The plant has increased its production of the packets to accomodate for the need in Pakistan.  

One Pur packet can turn 10 liters of dirty water into drinkable water.  With the flood waters still affecting Pakistan, mllions have been left with unsafe drinking water.  Therefore, the efforts of P & G will help Pakistan tremendously.