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Celebrating the Belle's 100th Birthday

October 15th through the 17th WaterStep helped celebrate the Belle of Louisville’s Centennial Birthday by participating in the Centennial Festival of Riverboat’s, Adventures in Education Festival. The festival gave 2000 Louisville third through fifth graders the opportunity to explore various educational displays and demonstrations.WaterStep staff, along with student volunteers from the University of Louisville, taught … Read more

Meet the Student Water Initiative

  Read the following interview with the three founding members of the Student Water Initiative – Will Modrall, Jed Kennedy, Elizabeth Carbone. This student group from the University of Louisville is competing in the upcoming Hack2O Water Hackathon, a design-build competition to create innovative water solutions for the developing world. The Student Water Initiative will … Read more

Meet Pat Mulroy

If you would like to hear Pat Mulroy speak in person, don’t miss IF Water 2014. The 3rd Annual IF Water Conference will be held on Tuesday, September 30th at the Kentucky International Convention Center. Tickets can be purchased through the Kentucky Center. Read about other IF Water speakers Fabien Cousteau and Rose George. Pat … Read more

A Day in Tiribi: Stories from the Field

  The WaterStep team sat in Iglesia Celebracion on an early Friday morning in Tiribi, Costa Rica. The team arrived, prepared to set up the system that would provide up to 10,000 gallons of safe water a dayPastor Miguel welcomed the group with a brief sermon and prayer. He informed them that Tiribi is located in … Read more

Stories from the Field: Tanzania Medical Trip

by Erin AsherWaterStep’s Director of Manufacturing Dr. Joe Jacobi, teamed up with WaterStep Medical Director Dr. Bill Smock and Foxes’ NGO to travel to Tanzania with 13 medical students from the University of Louisville to provide medical and dental services to the citizens of the Mufindi region of the country.While there, Dr. Jacobi was able … Read more

Meet Rose George

A trip to a public bathroom stall several years ago inspired journalist Rose George to think outside of the box.“I asked myself the question: Where does this stuff go?” George remembers. “With this question, I found myself plunged into the world of sanitation, toilets and poop. And I have yet to emerge.”As the author of … Read more

Community Shoe Drive in Peoria

When communities come together to collect shoes, they support water projects around the world. That is exactly what one Peoria community did.When accountant Denise Henderson from Peoria, IL saw the impact that her church made through a shoe drive, she decided she could multiply their efforts by starting even more shoe drives in the area. … Read more

Shipping to the Philippines

Thanks to donors like you, our Second Phase in the Philippines is in action. Last week, we packaged and shipped even more chlorinators to the areas most affected by Typhoon Haiyan.In January, our team responded by sending 60 chlorine generators and a team of three to train more than 150 individuals, representing 47 different nonprofits … Read more

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