PerkinElmer Sponsors World Water Monitoring Day for Second Year
PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences today announced its partnership with the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) and the International Water Association’s (IWA) World Water Monitoring Day™ (WWMD), a month-long program that kicks off on Sept. 18. PerkinElmer also sponsored the program in 2007.
WWMD is an international outreach program that builds global public awareness of and involvement in protecting water resources by engaging community members to perform basic monitoring tests of local rivers, streams, estuaries and other bodies of water.
PerkinElmer’s commitment to water aligns with the Company’s EcoAnalytix™ initiative, a program dedicated to improving and protecting the global ecosystem. PerkinElmer will be encouraging employees and customers to participate in WWMD through a series of targeted communications that include education about how to use the kit.
In 2007, more than 46,000 people worldwide participated in monitoring 3,544 sites. Participants can monitor the water quality in local water bodies and send the results back to WEF for analysis. Results are then shared with participants through the WWMD Web site.
For more information, please visit www.perkinelmer.com/environmental or www.worldwatermonitoringday.org.
