PUR has partnered with the Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program to help work for clean drinking water around the world. According to their website, every day more than 4,00 children die in the developing world because they don’t have clean drinking water. That’s a horribly large number. Let’s help them make it smaller.

They have created this water purification packet that’s pretty incredible-looking in action. Here’s a video showing how it works. It’s a long video, but it’s amazing to see the before-and-after results. PUR has donated 6 million PUR packets to Haiti — that’s 60 million liters of water. Here’s a Flikr stream with photos from Port au Prince.

I applaud anybody doing anything to solve a giant problem like clean drinking water, and if it happens to be a large corporation doing it, so much the better. They can do more than I could do alone and I’m happy to help them. They are a very generous company — they also want to give a water pitcher to one of my readers. You can win a PUR water pitcher of your very own by leaving a comment here before 12 Noon (PST) on Monday, February 8th — and by becoming a fan of their fan page (hey, I want to get more water donated, people).

One entry per email address, please, but feel free to tell everyone you know about the Fan Page!

UPDATE: The contest is over and John Cowburn has won. Congrats! I’ll be in touch about your prize…