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20th October 2007

Dean's fishing tournament raises £300 for WaterAid

Local man, Dean Valentine, a Field Technician at Three Valleys Water recently put his own and his colleagues fishing skills to the test to raise money for WaterAid, a charity dedicated to help the world’s poorest people gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.

Dean, who runs the Sports and Social Fishing club at Three Valleys Water brought colleagues together for a two day tournament at Inns Lake in Rickmansworth to see who could catch the most weight in fish and in doing so raised £300 thanks to the contribution of fishing goods for a raffle from local tackle shops in the area (Ultimate Angling in Hitchin, Old Town Angling in Hemel Hempstead and Queensway Angling).

“I’m really pleased to be able to donate this money to WaterAid, which was raised at an event where everyone had a great time” said Dean.

“This is a great contribution to our charity and it’s heart warming to see people like Dean wanting to do their bit to raise money for us; it makes a real difference to people’s lives” said Harriet De Bene of WaterAid.

How money raised for WaterAid is spent:

• £5 can pay for a bag of cement to build a latrine slab
• £15 is enough to give one person a lasting supply of safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
• £25 can be used to pay for a mason to protect a spring
• £50 is enough for two days of hygiene education training for a village
• £100 could pay a mason to build a hand-dug well
• £150 can pay to train two community members to maintain their village water supplies
• £200 could buy a locally built rope pump
• £385 could pay for a school sanitation block for 150 boys and girls

Photo caption: Dean presents Harriet De Bene of WaterAid with £300.

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For further information please contact Public Relations, tel: 01707 277110, fax: 01707 277213, website: www.3valleys.co.uk

Note to Editors:

About us
Three Valleys Water has been supplying water to the local community for more than 130 years and is committed to delivering a high quality water service to all its customers . It now provides over 870 million litres of water each day to three million customers, in parts of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, the London Boroughs of Harrow and Hillingdon and parts of the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, and Enfield. The supply area covers a total of 3,700 square kilometres, stretching from Luton and Royston in the north to Guildford in the south, and from Berkhamsted in the west to Dunmow in the east.

Three Valleys Water is the UK’s largest water supply only company and is part of Veolia Water, the world leader in water and wastewater management. If you spot a leak call the Leakspotters hotline on 0800 376 5325 or use our online leakage form

About WaterAid:

• WaterAid works in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people.
• Average cost for WaterAid's projects is just £15 per head
• 4 children die per minute due to preventable water-related diseases
• 1.1billion people have no access to clean water; 2.6billion are without any sanitation to speak of
• www.wateraid.org for more information