To participate in this year's WWMD event please contact one of the Smithfield Environmental Coordinators listed below:

• Don Butler (Murphy-Brown)
• Allyson Perry (Murphy-Brown West)
• Mark Ritsema (Packerland/Moyer)
• Paul Kafer (Northside)
• Steve Dravland (John Morrell)
• Tom Koeppen (Patrick Cudahy)
• Larry Hill (Farmland)
• Norman Fisher (SPC/GWL)
• Henry Kupczyk (Poland)
• Rolando Rivera (Quik-To-Fix)
• Giusto Piraino (Stefano Foods)

For the third consecutive year, Smithfield Foods employees will join volunteers across the United States and more than a dozen countries to collect water samples from local waterways as part of America's Clean Water Foundation's World Water Monitoring Day on October 18, 2005. The goal of this event is to increase the public's awareness of its role in protecting and preserving the quality of the world's waters by inviting a wide range of citizens, including students, to work alongside more experienced monitors to help sample water quality. For one month leading up to the day of the event, volunteers from around the world are encouraged to collect water samples from nearby waterways to test for pH levels, dissolved oxygen, temperature and clarity. Volunteers then enter water sample data into the WWMD database, which will help in drafting summary comparisons reflecting water quality conditions throughout the world.

Since 2003, Smithfield has encouraged its employees to participate in water collecting activities and also to involve local schools and scout groups. In 2004, the company provided 77 water testing kits for employees at 39 company locations in 17 states. These numbers were a significant increase from the event’s initial year.

Particularly successful were efforts to involve local schools and scout groups in the activities. In Monmouth, IL, Farmland Foods teamed with a seventh and eighth grade science class from the local junior high school to conduct the tests. In Smithfield, VA, Boy Scout Troop 36 tested the water in Jones Creek. As the company continues to boost employee involvement in this event, it hopes to create more of these relationships in its local communities.

Smithfield Foods has been a sponsor of WWMD since it was created by America’s Clean Water Foundation in 2003. The event was inspired by the success of the National Water Monitoring Day event in the U.S. in 2002, which marked the 30th anniversary of initial passage of the U.S. Clean Water Act. Other primary coordinators include the International Water Association, the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Employees who are interested or who have children in local schools and scout groups that may want to participate in WWMD should contact the Environmental Coordinator at their Smithfield subsidiary. Test kits and more information will be available soon.