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<strong>Mexico City, MEXICO -&nbsp;</strong>To continue providing access to clean, safe drinking water and handwashing stations to people in Mexico,&nbsp;and in recognition of Global Handwashing Day,&nbsp;Starbucks&nbsp;Mexico&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Starbucks Foundation&nbsp;partnered with&nbsp;Planet Water Foundation&nbsp;to install&nbsp;an&nbsp;AquaTower&nbsp;water&nbsp;filtration system&nbsp;in&nbsp;La Cañada community, located in Cerro Prieto, Querétaro.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Considered one of the most marginalized communities within&nbsp;Querétaro, access to&nbsp;safe,&nbsp;clean drinking water is&nbsp;a&nbsp;significant&nbsp;problem in La Cañada,&nbsp;where about 1,290 people live.&nbsp;Many&nbsp;residents&nbsp;are unable to&nbsp;consume&nbsp;water&nbsp;directly from a well without treatment or filtration&nbsp;and&nbsp;water&nbsp;is&nbsp;contaminated&nbsp;by&nbsp;farming waste,&nbsp;putting&nbsp;the health&nbsp;of residents at&nbsp;risk.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The&nbsp;new&nbsp;AquaTower&nbsp;water filtration system&nbsp;provides&nbsp;clean water to&nbsp;over 330&nbsp;students of the&nbsp;Niños&nbsp;Heroes School&nbsp;and supports&nbsp;at least 90 families&nbsp;in&nbsp;La Cañada&nbsp;with access to safe drinking water.&nbsp;Supplying&nbsp;up to 1,000 liters&nbsp;of clean water&nbsp;per hour,&nbsp;the tower&nbsp;was installed alongside an&nbsp;AquaSan&nbsp;system&nbsp;–&nbsp;that&nbsp;disinfects&nbsp;latrines and surfaces with chlorinated water&nbsp;–&nbsp;as well as six faucets and three soap dispensers at the bottom of the&nbsp;tower&nbsp;so that children can wash their hands and maintain healthy hygiene habits.&nbsp;&nbsp;

<em>"The AquaTower brings&nbsp;peace of mind to us as mothers that our children are drinking clean, disease-free water,"</em>&nbsp;explained Blanca, mother of one of the students who attends the school.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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As part of the Starbucks Mexico Volunteering Program, 10 partners (employees) from areas stores installed the&nbsp;AquaTower&nbsp;and&nbsp;AquaSan&nbsp;systems&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Niños&nbsp;Heroes School. Partners also&nbsp;taught students about&nbsp;polluted water&nbsp;and provided educational&nbsp;hygiene&nbsp;materials&nbsp;which&nbsp;reinforced safe hand washing practices. 

"The experience was incredible;&nbsp;we came together as a team, and we helped the community,”&nbsp;said Mauricio Sour, district manager of Starbucks store in&nbsp;Querétaro.&nbsp;“Interacting with the&nbsp;students&nbsp;through the&nbsp;educational workshops&nbsp;was very meaningful and&nbsp;reflected our&nbsp;company's&nbsp;commitment to strengthening&nbsp;our communities&nbsp;and nurturing the human spirit.”&nbsp;&nbsp;

These workshops, which are tailored to the unique needs of each community,&nbsp;are part of Planet Water Foundation's&nbsp;approach&nbsp;to hygiene&nbsp;education&nbsp;for&nbsp;students, teachers and community members.&nbsp;Although water is&nbsp;a basic&nbsp;life&nbsp;necessity,&nbsp;Planet Water Foundation reports that&nbsp;access to clean drinking water remains a pressing&nbsp;issue&nbsp;for&nbsp;approximately&nbsp;748 million people across the globe.&nbsp;&nbsp;

At Starbucks,&nbsp;we take actions to strengthen our communities by listening, supporting, investing and uplifting in meaningful ways.&nbsp;Since&nbsp;2011,&nbsp;The Starbucks Foundation&nbsp;has partnered with&nbsp;Planet Water&nbsp;Foundation to provide access to clean, safe drinking water and handwashing stations for communities in&nbsp;Cambodia, India, Indonesia,&nbsp;Mexico,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.&nbsp;

In&nbsp;early&nbsp;2021,&nbsp;Starbucks&nbsp;Mexico&nbsp;partnered with&nbsp;Planet Water Foundation&nbsp;in&nbsp;Mexico&nbsp;to install&nbsp;its first&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://historias.starbucks.com/es/stories/2021/starbucks-fundacion-planet-water-torre-de-agua/" target="_blank">AquaTower</a>&nbsp;in the community of El Refugio, Aguascalientes.&nbsp;This&nbsp;has&nbsp;prevented the consumption of contaminated drinking water by children,&nbsp;to&nbsp;enable&nbsp;them to go to&nbsp;school. The water filtration system has been providing clean water to&nbsp;500&nbsp;residents&nbsp;of the El Refugio community (1,000 liters per hour) per day.&nbsp;

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Starbucks and Planet Water Foundation bring clean water to La Cañada community in Querétaro

AquaTower&nbsp;water filtration system supplies&nbsp;up to 1,000 liters of clean water per hour to La Cañada community, in Cerro Prieto, Querétaro.&nbsp;&nbsp; 10&nbsp;Starbucks Mexico&nbsp;partners&nbsp;(employees)&nbsp;from stores&nbsp;across&nbsp;Querétaro&nbsp;install&nbsp;hand washing stations and provided&nbsp;educational&nbsp;hygiene&nbsp;workshops&nbsp;for&nbsp;students in&nbsp;the&nbsp;community.&nbsp;&nbsp; Second&nbsp;AquaTower&nbsp;water filtration system&nbsp;in Mexico supported&nbsp;by&nbsp;The&nbsp;Starbucks&nbsp;Foundation&nbsp;in partnership with&nbsp;Planet Water Foundation.&nbsp; Mexico City, MEXICO &#8211;&nbsp;To continue providing access to clean, safe drinking water and handwashing stations to people in […]

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