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1. 1902 : World Water Summit III in Montreal From: Sunil 


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Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:27 pm (PDT) 


MONTREAL (June 19, 2010) - Aggressive efforts by Rotary clubs to
help solve the global water and sanitation crisis -- which claims more
than two million lives each year, including 4,000 children every day --
will be front-and-center during the World Water Summit III, set for June
19 at the Delta Centre-Ville Hotel.

Keynote speakers at this one-day event, organized by the Water &
Sanitation Rotarian Action Group, include Guy Laliberté, founder of
Montréal's famous Cirque du Soleil and the ONE DROP Foundation
(8:45 a.m.); Charissa Brocklehurst, chief of UNICEF's Water,
Environment and Sanitation Programs Division (11:35 a.m.); and John
Lane, executive director of the Water Supply and Sanitation
Collaborative Council and former head of WaterAid.

"One billion people lack access to safe water and 2.5 billion to
adequate sanitation, and Rotary clubs are perfectly positioned to do
something about it," says F. Ronald Denham, of Toronto, who chairs
the action group, an international organization of Rotary members
interested in water and sanitation issues.

He says Rotary is committed to helping achieve the UN Millennium
Development Goal that calls for a 50 percent reduction by 2015 in the
number of people with insufficient access to safe water and sanitation.
>From 1978 through 2009, The Rotary Foundation awarded 4,923 grants
totaling US$52.7 million for water and sanitation projects worldwide.

"Rotary club members worldwide are helping communities develop
rainwater harvesting systems, install filters, drill wells and construct
pipelines, dams and ponds," Denham adds. "On the sanitation
side, many others are helping build latrines and toilet blocks in slums
throughout Africa and Asia, and are taking the lead in educating the
public about the benefits of personal hygiene in preventing waterborne
diseases."

Laliberté, founder of the Montréal-based ONE DROP Foundation, sees
water as the common thread connecting many social and economic problems.
"Water is the source of life, and every single humanitarian crisis
can be linked back to a water issue," he says.

Rotary also recently launched an alliance with the U.S. Agency for
International Development to implement sustainable, long-term water,
sanitation and hygiene projects in the Dominican Republic, Ghana and the
Philippines.

Rotary's strength at the grassroots level -- 33,000 clubs in more
than 200 countries and areas with a total membership over 1.2 million
men and women -- makes the humanitarian service organization adept at
tailoring projects to fit community needs. Says Denham: "This is an
enormous challenge for humanity, and Rotary clubs are logical leaders in
the challenge because they are embedded in their local communities,
allowing the clubs to help define realistic solutions to local
problems."

Rotary International President John Kenny made water and sanitation a
top issue for Rotary clubs, challenging them "to focus on water and
sanitation, as the scarcity of clean water is an increasingly serious
issue in many parts of the world." In 2007, Prince Charles,
president of WaterAid, a UK-based nonprofit, presented Kenny, a native
Scot, with the President's Award for Outstanding Voluntary Service
to WaterAid. In fact, Kenny often uses an old Scottish saying that is
particularly appropriate for the World Water Summit: "We must look
beyond our own parish pump."

Contact: Wayne Hearn at Rotary Convention Press Center 1-514-789-3417 or
 <mailto:wayne.hearn%40rotary.org> wayne.hearn at rotary.org 

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