NextBillion.net.  World Resources Institute.  15 April 2008. <http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/1970>

            Next Billion is a blog, news source, and resource database launched by the World Resources Institute where any one can comment on a wide array of topics.  Therefore, the information could have the potential to be biased or not backed up with fact.  One component of the website is a database of activities and initiatives that deal with different global issues.  One of the activity descriptions is about Procter and Gamble’s water-filtration system, that is easy to use in the home and affordable at about US$.10.  According to this description, the filter is largely donated to communities or for emergency relief.  It also describes how P&G uses a commercial market approach to build awareness and provide clean drinking water.

Clinton Global Initiative.  17 April 2008. 

<http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=1054&srcid=973>

            The Clinton Global Initiative was launched in 2005 as part of the William J. Clinton Foundation and it brings together a wide array of global leaders to address global challenges.  The Clinton Global Initiative, since it does have such a wide and divrse group of partners, as well as an action and results-oriented nature, is a reliable source of information on world issues.  This particular page describes what Procter & Gamble’s PUR water purification system has been doing for people in Africa.  According to this site, P&G attended the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative summit and pledged to reach one million children in Africa with safe drinking water education and provide 25 million liters of safe drinking water within three years.  The website also briefly describes P&G’s Health Sciences Institute and what it does.

P&G Health Sciences Institute.  18 April 2008. 

<http://www.pghsi.com/pghsi/safewater/;jsessionid=LNE4TTYO42VVZQFIASJHKY4AVACJE3MK>

            Procter and Gamble’s Health Sciences Institute works to research and develop health care technologies and to develop effective products.  P&G obviously has a vested interest in developing health care products that are also profitable for them, but they also are working in developing countries on problems like the lack of clean drinking water.  The website provides an overview of what the P&G Health Sciences Institute has been doing by developing the PUR Water Purifier that clarifies and reduces pathogens in water.  They are planning to expand this into the developing world in the Children’s Safe Drinking Water program.  This website contains links to several papers as well as more complete coverage of their work.