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February 21, 2011

Hope Springs water sales helps people over the world

Mollie Bumgardner The Athens Review

ATHENS — Hope Springs Water is on the shelves at many local businesses, are you doing your part to help save lives? Dr. Ted Mettetal and everyone else involved in Hope Springs Water and Hope Springs Inc. are doing their best to help save lives.

Hope Springs Water is a non-profit company that gives 100 percent of its proceeds to develop sources of pure drinking water in communities with no access to acceptable water.

Hope Springs Water is supplied with money to drill wells and help purify existing water supplies by Hope Springs Inc.

Hope Springs Inc., is a for-profit agency that sells the bottled water and then donates the profits to Hope Springs Water. Hope Springs Inc. supplies local stores in the East Texas area with the bottled water to sell.

Once any business costs have been taken out, the money is then donated to Hope Springs Water where it is used to help developing countries.

Mettetal said he got the idea for Hope Springs Water when he was preparing for a mission trip to Mexico. In the fall of 2009, Mettetal was in a local grocery store looking for water to take on his trip.

“God inserted a question in my mind. I started thinking what would it look like if there was water on the shelf that gave the profits to those that don’t have clean water?” Mettetal said.

It was at that moment that the concept of Hope Springs Water began.

Hope Springs Water is in the process of getting the product into local grocery stores, and widening the area that currently sells Hope Springs Water.

The water is natural spring water from Caney Spring in Houston County. Currently you can purchase Hope Spring Water at Anderson Drug, Gibson Pharmacy, Athens Thrift Store, Montalba General, Fair Trading Company in Canton, Crossroads Church in Canton, and it is available exclusively to customers at New York Texas Zip Line.

Leanna Gowan, a local vocal artist is promoting Hope Springs Water at all of her promotions for her album. Gowan has a album coming out in the near future.

The Trinity Valley Community College Student Senate did a fundraiser last May, and donated all of the proceeds to help drill wells in Nicaragua. There are now two wells there and a third well is in the works. Anyone interested in hosting a fundraiser to benefit Hope Springs Water can contact Dusty Mettetal at dusty_mettetal@hopespringsh2o.com or by calling 903-286-2225.

“Hope Springs Water offers people the opportunity to help save a life by buying water,” Dr. Mettetal said.

Over 200 million man-hours of labor are used every day by people traveling to a water source to obtain just a few gallons of water. Most of the water to where these people are traveling is tainted, and causes waterborne illness.

The board at Hope Springs Water and Hope Springs Inc. is hoping to make a difference in the way that people obtain water, and the quality of the water that is available.

Board of Directors for Hope Springs Inc. are: Lee Bush, Kenneth McGee, Steve Stark (Chairman), Matthew Akin,  Debbie Leatherwood, Jack Clemmons and Tom Page. The Board of Trustees for Hope Springs Water are as follows: Steven Akin (Chairman), Jim Taylor, Bruce Hinds, Matthew Hurst, Olaf VonSehrwald, Katie Leatherwood, Jim Palmer and C. Ted Mettetal.

The board members for both companies are very involved in all matters that pertain to Hope Springs Water and Hope Springs Inc., and they have all united to help make a difference.

Water wells, water purification and sanitation systems and community health education initiatives worldwide are just some of the projects that Hope Springs Water is working on with the help of the community.

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