World Water Day 2015: 10 years of Stirring Up Change and Transforming Lives with Clean Water

Mar 20, 2015 2:00 PM ET

March 22 is a special day for the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program – we celebrate World Water Day and the transformative impact that clean water has on children, their families and entire communities. We take a moment to thank our partners along with the individuals and organizations around the world working to provide and protect this essential and life-changing resource.

Over the past 10 years, we have been inspired by the stories of the people we have met with our partners in our collaborative efforts to help provide clean water with P&G packets in more than 75 countries. Many of their stories we have told through this blog and they share the same themes. When people have access to clean water, it changes lives. Clean water keeps children healthy so they can go to school and adults healthy so they can work and earn income to support their families. It helps entire communities move out of poverty.

Continue reading on P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water site

About Procter & Gamble and Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program
The P&G Children's Safe Drinking Water Program (CSDW) is a non-profit initiative sponsored by Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer good company and manufacturer of global, iconic and trusted brands like Vicks, Pantene, Gillette, Tide, Duracell, Oral B, Whisper, Head & Shoulders, Olay and SK-II among several others. The CSDW initiative has provided 7 billion litres of clean drinking water to people in need since 2004. CSDW has partnered with a diverse network of over 140  organizations to help distribute water purification sachets in developing countries.