UNICEF: Bringing safe water to Haiti's quake zone

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_52684.html

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 3 February 2010 Safe water is flowing in earthquake-affected areas of Haiti. Overall, UNICEF and its partners are now distributing more than 2.6 million litres of drinking water daily to over half a million people here in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and in the cities of Leogane and Jacmel.

Leopold Sabbat runs Frechè Lokal, a water-purification and distribution company that is one of UNICEFs private-sector partners in Port-au-Prince. In the days immediately following the 12 January earthquake, Mr. Sabbat and his company used their fleet of tanker trucks to provide safe water to thousands of survivors.

Since then, UNICEF and Frechè Lokal have joined forces to increase the amount of water treated at the companys plant and distributed to children and families. Every day, UNICEF and Frechè Lokal send out at least 150 trucks, each filled with 5,000 litres of water, to 200 distribution points around the city and the partners are working to increase capacity.

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• UNICEF
• Haiti
• earthquake
• water
• Frechè
• Lokal
• children
• sanitation
• protection