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Great story in Tampa newspaper yesterday on UTRM partnering with a number of other businesses to send thousands of Aquafree toothbrushes to the earthquake victims in Haiti. Presumably the units are being paid for by the partnering businesses and the foundation:

Thursday, January 14, 2010, 12:07pm EST | Modified: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:39pm
Waterless toothbrush inventor helping Haitian earthquake victimsTampa Bay Business Journal
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Kathleen Cabble
Todd Spinelli, left, president of Conserve Tampa Water, at a news conference Thursday.
View Larger Businesses are working together on relief for earthquake victims in Haiti, and one Tampa inventor is offering to help with the everyday task of teeth brushing.

Todd Spinelli, president of Conserve Tampa Water, will partner with Kalos International and the Haitian Association Foundation of Tampa to send thousands of water-free toothbrushes to Haiti. The Aquafree Toothbrush, produced by United Treatments Centers Inc. (OTCBB: UTRM) of Astoria, N.Y., was developed for use in areas without clean water and to promote efforts to conserve water around the world.

Spinelli and development partner Frank Ottaviani began to formulate their idea for Aquafree after operating mobile dental clinics in underserved areas, a release said. They discovered that the average person wastes nearly two gallons of water per day, according to a 2006 report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

On top of that, more than 2 billion people worldwide don’t have access to sanitary water, making such a toothbrush necessary.

“It is times like this we are glad to be at the forefront of a product that can really help,” Spinelli said in a release. “We strive to assist those who can’t access clean water and also to conserve water on a local front.”

In other relief efforts, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has sent a Florida Crisis Response Team to Florida’s Haitian communities in Miami. The team is specially trained to provide support in the aftermath of disasters, and will work directly with Floridians who have family and loved ones in Haiti who were affected by Tuesday’s earthquake.

McCollum also warned about scammers and con artists who might take advantage of people’s good intentions by creating charities. He said that while e-mails and Web sites requesting donations may appear legitimate, they could be a ploy to phish personal information.

Florida law requires charities to register with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and provide financial information about income and expenditures. That registration list is available to the public at www.doacs.state.fl.us.


Waterless toothbrush inventor helping Haitian earthquake victims
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