Thursday night at the 2013 Ali Awards, WaterStep CEO Mark Hogg was awarded the Kentucky Humanitarian of the Year. Other award winners included former President Jimmy Carter, Michael Bolton and Christina Aguilera. The awards ceremony honored the winners for their commitment to different causes: water, hunger-relief, gender equality and more. Muhammed Ali, his wife Yolonda, … Read more
Our own Mark Hogg, Founder and CEO, has been selected as the Kentucky Humanitarian of the Year and will be awarded with this honor on Thursday, October 3rd at The Inaugural Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards: An Evening of Recognizing Greatness. The event will be a night of celebration, recognition and inspiration honoring humanitarians who exemplify … Read more
Mark Hogg boarded the Millennial Train Wednesday evening and stopped in Chicago Thursday morning to speak to the Millennials about WaterStep’s future with Virtual Water Utilities. The Millennial Train is a non-profit organization that leads crowd-funded transcontinental train journeys that empower diverse groups of enterprising and civic-minded Millennials to explore America’s new frontiers. Over the … 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
Barry Hart, Chairman of Water Ambassadors Canada visited WaterStep last Thursday. Hart and Water Ambassadors have worked with WaterStep over the last five years, and focus on sending more missions teams out to bring safe water to the world.Hart founded Water Ambassadors Canada about 11 years ago. After retiring from teaching high school science, he … Read more
WaterStep’s new Director of Business Development, Michael Raus, connected with us for an interesting reason. He found out about WaterStep through his history and experience with shoes.Raus grew up in Louisville, and attended Kentucky Country Day High School. He attended American University in Washington D.C., and got a B.S.B.A. in International Business. He graduated from … Read more
WaterStep is proud to announce that its innovative M-100 Chlorine Generator will be featured in the 2013 Sustainia100 Guide, which identifies 100 of the world’s most impactful and sustainable solutions. The M-100 was selected using the five evaluation criteria: readily available, positive environmental impact, financially viable, improve quality of life and scalability. The M-100, which … Read more
Natalie Hymer, ambassador for WaterStep, was awarded the President’s Award from Georgetown College for academic achievement, leadership, service, and potential as a scholar and Christian leader.This is Hymer’s fourth summer working at WaterStep. She has worked as an intern, managed mission sites, and is currently planning a trip to Daréin, Panama for WaterStep with Tori … Read more
WaterStep’s hand pump repair training team started building a training platform that will simulate a hand pump in the real world, this week. Rick Jenner, who leads the hand pump repair trainings, said that the platform will simulate the situations students will encounter in areas where pumps have been broken. “The pump would be on … Read more
Each morning in the desert bush of Burkino Faso, I lay under the fading stars of morning light awoken by the sounds of women and children pumping the only hand pump in the area, filling buckets with water and carrying them home on their heads. That was in 1983.Yet, even today most women travel over … Read more
