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Home » Operation Aqua Sends Kohler Clarity Water Filters to Puerto Rico

Operation Aqua Sends Kohler Clarity Water Filters to Puerto Rico

January 3, 2018
Operation Aqua Sends Kohler Clarity Water Filters to Puerto Rico

Since Operation Agua launched in October, the partnership is halfway to reaching its fundraising goal, and the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, has distributed 3,849 Kohler Clarity water filters to nearly every open school in Puerto Rico to provide safe drinking water to the 272,131 students enrolled. The remaining 25 schools will receive their water filters when the schools reopen after the holidays.

"The AMPR is here for our students, our members, our schools and our communities," said Aida Diaz, AMPR president. "We started our efforts in the schools because we wanted to ensure our students and staff had safe drinking water. This is a continuing plan to help Puerto Rico recover and rebuild and to support public education on our island."

Responding to the water crisis in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the AFT; Operation Blessing International; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the Hispanic Federation; the Seafarers International Union; and TOTE Maritime launched Operation Agua to crowd source contributions and provide a reliable source of safe drinking water across Puerto Rico.

To date, Operation Agua has raised $1.5 million to purchase and distribute 100,000 individual water filtration systems for households and classrooms, and to install large-capacity clean-water devices to a network of nonprofit organizations, union offices, schools and other community-based groups to provide stable and reliable sources of safe water.

Based on current donations, Operation Agua has committed to purchasing 55,920 Kohler filters, and so far 27,680 have been delivered to Puerto Rico or are currently en route. The Seafarers International Union and the shipping company TOTE Maritime are working together to ship these water filters to Puerto Rico for free.

A single $30 contribution covers the cost of an in-home purifier, the Kohler Clarity filter, which requires no electricity and provides more than 10 gallons of safe water per day to a family. And $5,000 delivers a disinfectant generator that can disinfect 150,000 gallons per day – enough safe water for thousands of people.

"This week, we worked with the AMPR to install a reverse osmosis water system in the Hospital Del Maestro in San Juan, which is now producing 27 gallons of safe water a minute for its patients and staff," said Bill Horan, president of Operation Blessing. "We are in the process of installing several large-scale chlorinators in communities across the island so people have reliable access to ample safe water to prevent infections and disease."

Along with water filter distributions to schools, Operation Agua partners are leading distributions directly to families and communities across the island. Members of the Servidores Publico Unidos, an AFSCME affiliate, are delivering thousands of filters to special education students and their families. The Hispanic Federation has distributed hundreds of filters at a community college and to community organizations.

To make a donation or become an Operation Agua sponsor, go to www.operationagua.com.

 

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