Oakville Rotary announces Centennial Water Project with Zenon The four Oakville Rotary Clubs are pleased to announce a joint project with Zenon Environmental Corporation to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rotary International on February 23, 2005. This project combines the resources of Rotary, the largest service Club in the world, with Zenon Environmental Corporation, a world leader in the development and installation of water filtration systems that address the particular problem of viral and bacterial contaminants. This joint initiative was formed to install such a system capable of treating and delivering up to 70,000 gallons (317,800 litres) of clean drinking water a day to a suitable site in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Rotarian from each of Oakville's four Clubs -- Oakville, Oakville Trafalgar,  Oakville North and Oakville West -- form the committee responsible for the site selection, engaging their counterpart Rotary Clubs in Africa to get involved with the project, gaining support from the local governments and buy-in from the community itself. The committee will also be raising funds to provide the water delivery system required at the actual site. Zenon Environmental Corporation, together with support from its suppliers, will cover all the costs associated with the design, engineering, construction and installation of the water filtration system. "To celebrate the centenary year of Rotary International, we decided to export some of the privileges of our own community to one far less fortunate than ourselves.", said David Angas, Committee Chair. "This project has allowed us to bring some attention to a threatened part of the world and to the most basic of all human needs - clean drinking water." A joint team will be leaving on January 30th to inspect a short list of candidate sites in Ghana and South Africa. An announcement will be made soon after their return on the site selected and details of this project. -30-