‘Water for the World’ program turns three
Oct. 28, 2010 — Three years after its launch at K-Fair in 2007, Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions and its joint-venture in the Middle East and Asia, Borouge, draw a first successful balance of their corporate social responsibility programme Water for the World™. Since its launch, Water for the World has directly reached around 260,000 people all over the world and has built a platform for partnerships with stakeholders from the plastics industry, renowned organisations and agencies.
As the first global programme in the plastics industry to address the water challenge, Water for the World achieved significant project milestones in four areas:
Supporting water access projects
More than one-third of the world population is currently lacking access to safe drinking water or sanitation. Providing water access has therefore been one of the key focus areas of the programme. Borealis and Borouge developed a number of projects in close partnership with the local plastic pipe industry and local and international nongovernmental organisations (NGOs).
Borouge partnered with the local Sushma Koirala Memorial Trust to provide the continuous supply of piped fresh water to a school and 2000 residents in a district of the historic town of Bakhtapur in Nepal.
In Sichuan, China, which was struck by an earthquake in May 2008, Borouge joined NGO Lien Aid and the Singapore Water Association to alleviate the water problem for the 10,000 inhabitants of Shengli, a village and resettlement camp near Beichuan County. Borouge supplied the polyethylene material to its customer, Szechuan Chinaust, who produced the pipes and delivered them to the village, 300km away, and supported them with the installation.
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