02.05.2008: Category 3 Cyclone hit Myanmar

- more than 22,000 people dead
- hundreds of thousands of victims
- extreme lack of clean water, food, shelter and medical supplies has raised concerns about the spread of disease and threatens to increase the already astonishing death toll.
- preparing up to 63 water purification systems
- first 12 water systems destined for Myanmar are scheduled to leave WMI’s International Headquarters in Charleston, SC early Friday morning, May 9.