WaterStep CEO Mark Hogg from Cebu City, Philippines, where WaterStep is setting up a training center to train disaster relief nonprofits in the installation, operation, and maintenance of WaterStep’s M-100 Chlorine Generator. Video by Kylene White.A team of five, including Mark Hogg, WaterStep Director of Field Operation Kurtis Daniels, engineer Juan Emmanuel Afable, Courier Journal … Read more
A group of University of Louisville students left early this morning, carrying 60 water purifiers in their luggage destined for Cebu City, Philippines. Read more about the efforts these amazing students are contributing to and what they’re doing to save lives with safe water in the article posted by the Louisville Courier-Journal. To learn … Read more
WaterStep staff and volunteers talk about packing to send 60 water purifiers to Cebu City, Philippines. There WaterStep is setting up a training center to teach the installation, operation, and maintenance of the M-100 Chlorine Generator, a water purifier that can produce up to 10,000 gallons of safe water daily, providing safe water to up … Read more
Guest Blogger CoraLyn Turentine writes about her experience in Haiti this past September. Read her last blog post about Haiti here. Also: A lot of work has been done, but there is still work to do. Support the current project in Haiti by donating a few dollars. What happened on the September 2013 water trip … Read more
WaterStep is excited to be working with the Emergency Management Agency (EMA) in Kentucky and Indiana to create more sustainable options to disaster relief.The EMA have participated in Disaster Relief Training through WaterStep. They were trained on how to operate WaterStep’s M-100 Chlorine Generator and provide safe water to responders when in need.EMA wrote in … Read more
Safe water saves live. At WaterStep, we know and are motivated by this truth. However, bringing safe water to those in need has effects greater than the physical. For women, safe water means better health for their family, more time to commit to education or a job, and more control of their own lives.In developing … Read more
Boston Marathon winner and first independent member of Kenyan Parliament, Wesley Korir, spoke at WaterStep Monday night about the importance of safe water in his country and the potential that WaterStep has to make a difference in the future.Members of the Louisville Metro Police Department and other community members gathered to hear Korir speak about … Read more
Two of WaterStep’s ambassadors, Tori and Natalie, are recently traveled to Panama as part of WaterStep’s vision to empower ordinary people with safe water. While there they connected with organizations and networked to ensure that WaterStep has a pivotal role in efforts fighting the water crisis within Panama in the future. Tori and Natalie spent … Read more
Different non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders from around the world met at WaterStep to discuss the future for their organizations and how to best work together to overcome obstacles.Mark Hogg, founder and CEO of WaterStep, said that the meeting was full of new ideas being explored along with shared experiences and challenges. He was encouraged by … Read more
