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Procter & Gamble scientists Philip Souter and Colin Ure have been awarded the 2006 National Inventor of the Year award for the design and development of PUR Purifier of Water. This is the top honor granted by the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation. Read More

P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water program has been awarded the  2005 Stockholm Industry Water Award. This award, established by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, recognizes innovation in a novel and sustainable approach to provide safe drinking water in the developing world.

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The Health Sciences Institute’s Safe Drinking Water Program has been recognized as making an important contribution to help meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water.

The Safe Drinking Water Program won the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) World Business Award. The award was presented in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) in Marrakesh in June 2004.

Further details on the ICC-UNDP-IBLF World Business Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals are available at www.iccwbo.org/awards.

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Health Sciences Institute and CDC researchers received the James H. Nakano Citation from the CDC for their research publication demonstrating that Purifier of Water can significantly reduce diarrheal illness.

• A randomized controlled trial of household-based flocculent-disinfectant drinking water treatment for diarrhea prevention in rural Guatemala. Copyright© 2003, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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