2007

Internationalist of the year - Internationalist Magazine
for helping avert diarrheal illness and save lives


Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership (co-recipient)
for providing clean drinking water in developing countries, with emphasis on employee and community relations.


Laureate of the 2007 Tech Museum Awards – The Tech Museum of Innovation
for applying technology to benefit humanity and spark global change in the field of clean drinking water


Global Leadership Award - United Nations Association of the USA
for providing clean water for millions around the world (and for Protecting Futures, a program by Tampax & Always)


Children's Environmental Health Excellence Award - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
for outstanding leadership in protecting children from environmental health risk


American Express Members Project
for being voted the most actionable and impactful project idea by American Express card members


International Health Communication Gold Medallion Award (co-recipient) - Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
for building market-based relationships that sustain and deliver clean drinking water


Strategic Vision Award - Center for Strategic and International Studies, Global Strategy Institute
for formulating creative and innovative approaches to one of the most strategically important issues of our time - clean drinking water


Grainger Challenge Bronze Award - National Academy of Engineering and The Grainger Foundation
for being an innovative, sustainable solution for arsenic removal from drinking water


2006

National Inventor of the Year - Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation
for the humanitarian efforts that led to the design and development of the PUR Packet


2005

Stockholm Industry Water Award - Stockholm International Water Institute
for the development of PUR Packet


2004

World Business Award - International Chamber of Commerce, United National Development Program and the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
for support of the UN Millennium Development Goals, and, in particular, work toward the target of reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to clean drinking water by 2015