Association of Contracting Plumbers of the City of New York contributes to IWSH

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Association of Contracting Plumbers of the City of New York, Inc. (ACPCNY) has made a donation to the International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Foundation (IWSH) to support programs that provide safe water and sanitation.

The ACPCNY, a trade association established in 1881, is dedicated to the improvement of public health through the proper and adequate installation of sanitary systems, indicates a release.

IWSH, which has been around since 2016, has been involved in a number of projects across the U.S. including multiple Community Plumbing Challenges to bring clean water and safe sanitation to remote homes as well as a Wash Station Challenge that brought community hand-washing stations to the Navajo Nation; highlighting and addressing water quality issues in the city of Nome, Texas; and helping bring decentralized waste systems to rural communities in Alabama, adds the release.

“As a tenet of the association, we believe it’s our obligation to ensure everyone is provided with safe drinking water,” said ACP executive vice president Terence O’Brien in a statement. “We also strive to support worthy causes whenever possible. When we became aware of IWSH it connected these two core objectives. Supporting altruistic causes like IWSH is even more vital when times are difficult, and the last couple of years have been unprecedently so. We hope this contribution provides what we all consider a basic human right in clean, readily available drinking water.”