2015

• ACC celebrates World Water Day
  American Chemistry Council Blog, March 31, 2015

  In 1993, the United Nations declared March 22 to be celebrated as “World Day of Water.”  Most people now simply call it World Water Day and it has grown in awareness ever since.  In the United States, we have the good fortune to take safe drinking water for granted.

2014

• CNN Highlights the Water Crisis in Haiti
  Water Quality and Health, April 25, 2014

  A sixteen year old girl in Miami wakes up on a normal day, showers, dresses, eats breakfast, and is off to school, filled with thoughts of friends and classes. Seven hundred miles away in Haiti, sixteen year old Vidjinia Methelus begins her day at dawn with a 30 minute walk to an irrigation stream where she will bathe without privacy and collect water for her family’s cooking and bathing needs.

• Why Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic ‘could strike again’
  CNN International, April 23, 2014

  In January 2010 a seven-point magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 250,000 people and damaging its infrastructure, including some water systems.

• Haiti’s Clean Water Crisis
  CNN International, April 16, 2014

  Meet a young girl who walks for nearly two hours a day to fetch water for her family while still making time for school.

• Clean Water Solutions for Haiti
  CNN International, April 16, 2014

  Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores how technology like reverse osmosis and chlorine purification can help solve the country’s water crisis.

• Could Deadly Water Epidemic Strike Again?
  CNN International, April 16, 2014

  Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the constant threat of waterborne diseases in the island nation of Haiti.

• Third Graders Celebrate World Water Day by Improving the Safety of Haiti’s Drinking Water
  NEA Health Information Network – School Health Savvy Blog, March 21, 2014

  On Friday, March 21, the third grade science class of Washington DC’s Ludlow-Taylor Elementary, led by their teacher, Ms. Amanda Oberski, set out to walk six blocks from their Capitol Hill school to the offices of the American Chemistry Council (ACC). ACC is a trade association of U.S. chemical producers. The students had been invited to celebrate World Water Day (officially Saturday, March 22) at ACC offices by being treated to a hands-on presentation by International Action.

2013

• DC Nonprofit Finds Help for Haitian Students in Rockville
  Rockville Patch, July 15, 2013

  International Action was one of several nonprofit organizations picking up free school supplies at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville to send to Haiti.

2012

• Paving the Way to 2050 (Future Earth, #1): Technologies; Services & Products
  The Emerald Planet, July 22, 2012

  Zachary Brehmer, Director of Research, and Jeffery Sejour, Director of Finance and Local Training, discuss the growth of urban areas in Haiti and the need to improve the existing infrastructure, particularly where clean water is concerned.

2011

• Oxfam takes the fight against cholera to rural Haiti
  Oxfam, October 31, 2011

  In remote communities where the risk of death by cholera is heightened by rugged terrain, Oxfam is making water safer.

• International Action Update
  Haiti Innovation, July 15, 2011

  Community leader Billy Osbene told [International Action’s Research Director, Zach Bremer], “Before International Action had set up a chlorinator, people did not trust the water in the community tank that CAMEP had provided – there was no (visible sanitation process) with the water at their tank.”

• NGOs Report Resurgence of Cholera in Haiti (PDF, 39KB)
  OOSKAnews, July 13, 2011
• Emergency from 2010 Quake in Haiti Persists – NGO Special
  Digital Journal, June 29, 2011

  As part of efforts to ensure clean water in the capital, the International Action maintains over 100 readily available chlorinators with each one capable of cleaning water for up to 10,000 people. “The chlorinators we use are energy-free and provide clean water for every 1 out of 6 residents of Port-au-Prince,” Levin-Epstein adds.

• CGI Haiti Action Network WASH/Shelter Group – Activity Report (PDF, 2MB)
  Clinton Global Initiative Haiti Action Network WASH/Shelter Group, June 1, 2011