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Annual Fundraiser is a 'Smashing' Success for WaterAid

HYDRO International is celebrating a ‘smashing’ success after its third annual thrills-and-spills team challenge, ‘It’s a Knockout’, played host to a record number of teams and raised over £5,000 for WaterAid.

Despite torrential rain in the morning 17 teams of employees, suppliers and business partners battled for a place in the grand final. The sun finally came out, just in time to see ARC Energy Resources crowned this year’s winner, taking home the coveted Tap Trophy from Total Ltd.

In last place, taking home the even more coveted loser’s wooden bucket from CPM Ltd, was Hanson Quarry Products Ltd. The event, held in Clevedon, was sponsored by Micro Drainage and Frankische.

“This years’ ‘It’s a Knockout’ has been a great success and we have raised a significant amount of money for a very important cause. I want to say a big thank you to everyone involved on what was not only a fun, but extremely worthwhile day,” said Chris Williams, Chief Operating Officer for Hydro International.

Hydro’s contribution to WaterAid will help 19,000 people across rural areas of Mali gain access to the life-saving provisions of water, sanitation and hygiene education through a specific programme of work.

In Mali, access to water is a daily struggle; people in rural villages can walk as much as seven hours a day to find water in the dry season and this increasing water scarcity is further compounded by severe poverty.

More than eight million Malians do not have access to adequate sanitation, which has lasting impacts on their health. Water and sanitation related diseases are the first and third most common cause of death respectively, contributing to the fact that more than three and a half million people in Mali will not survive past the age of 40.

Plans for next years’ ‘It’s a Knockout’ are already well underway with the fun and wacky fundraising day to be held on Saturday 5June 2010.

A fundraising report and full details of events can be found at www.hydro-fundraising.com

More about WaterAid can be found at www.wateraid.org

Charity registration numbers 288701 (England and Wales) and SC039479 (Scotland)

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