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Article: USAID and Partners Form a $5 Million Alliance for Safe Drinking Water; Safe Drinking Water Alliance Launched at the United Nations.
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- April 22, 2004
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NEW YORK, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A strategic public-private collaboration devoted to ensuring safe drinking water was officially launched today at the United Nations' Commission on Sustainable Development meeting in New York. The Safe Drinking Water Alliance will receive $1.4 million over the next 18 months from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Global Development Alliance, an initiative to promote partnerships such as this in the developing world. USAID's financial contribution is leveraging substantial in-kind and financial contributions from Procter & Gamble (estimated at approximately $3.5 million), as well as technical and program ...