Plumbers Without Borders

IAPMO’s OFFICIAL magazine reports on Fred Schilling’s latest trip to Haiti…bringing hope and skills-building…Read the full article here

Commemorating World Water Day, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a new partnership to improve water security. Announced in March 2012, the U.S. Water Partnership (USWP) unites and mobilizes U.S. expertise, resources and ingenuity to address water challenges around the globe, particularly in the developing world.

We want to share with you that one of our members, Fred C. Schilling, a Certified Master Plumber, Backflow Tester and Backflow Repair technician in Florida, is headed to Haiti next week May 9th, 2012, to work with Water for Humans (www.waterforhumans.org) on a water-purification system.

Our hats off to Fred, as well as our heartfelt Thanks for his deep personal concern and willingness to serve in the collective effort to help bring some relief to the people of Haiti, suffering from drinking contaminated water and lack of sanitation.

Frederick C Schilling Jr., born at “Flushing Hospital” in New York, (1949) is an interesting origin for someone whom would span six decades dedicated to the “Art” of being a Plumber.

Fred began his formal Plumbing training as a U. S. Air Force Plumber, at Port Hueneme California, with the Navy Seabees and Air Force Civil Engineering. In 1969, he was assigned to Osan Air Base, South Korea, spending over a year working hand in hand with Korean Nationals, many of them, women (some with infants strapped to their backs) constructing new Plumbing Installations.

He became a member of the U. S. Air Force “Red Horse” Combat Construction Squadron which stands for ‘Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Engineers’.

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“This 2012 UN-Water GLAAS provides further reason for vigilance—resources are neither targeted nor apparently sufficient to sustain routine operation and maintenance of water and sanitation services. Thus, there is a serious risk of slipping backwards on gains already made. The analysis emerging from UN-Water GLAAS also helps to identify the reasons behind the disparities in access to sanitation and drinking-water among different regions, communities and income groups.” read more at the World Health Organization website…..

Thank you to Mike Rowe: here addressing the Senate about the trades and the skills gap…

The World Health Organization and the World Plumbing Council present this publication on health aspects of plumbing noting that sustainable health, especially for children, is not possible without access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation facilities.

Health Aspects of Plumbing

Water and Sanitation is critically essential to rising up out of poverty….Read Jan Eliasson’s article here ….Jan Eliasson was the first UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs…

Read about the UN’s Drive to achieve Sustainable Sanitation for all….

http://sanitationdrive2015.org/UN-water.html

Working to bring safe drinking water and sanitation where it’s needed most.

Habitat for Humanity: Cambodia

The UN designates March 22nd as World Water Day…

Circle of Blue: Article by Brett Walton

Check out this new grass-roots effort to build on the synergy of collaboration and technology to help solve global human suffering…..