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Dow Water & Process Solutions to be Featured on Our Planet Series ‘Safe, Sustainable Water Solutions for the 21st Century’

Five-minute segment will educate viewers on the world’s water crisis

Minneapolis - August 19, 2009

The quality and scarcity of freshwater is quickly becoming a critical issue worldwide. More than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water today, and experts estimate that by 2025, five billion people will live in areas of significant water stress. While water conservation is one of the most cost efficient answers, technology, in combination with sound management practices, can help effectively solve the world's worsening water crisis.

Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS), a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, is committed to advancing water treatment technologies and ensuring the availability of clean water to those who need it-through advanced research and industry-leading application expertise.

DW&PS' innovations will be featured in a five-minute segment as part of Our Planet's 'Safe, Sustainable Water Solutions for the 21st Century." The program begins airing in August on MSNBC, FOX Business News and CNN Headline News in areas such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana and Texas at the top of the hour. The segment can also be viewed any time by visiting www.dowwatersolutions.com.

"There is no more or less water on the earth today as there was millions of years ago. The challenge we're facing today, however, is where that water is located and distributed," said Ian Barbour, general manager of Dow Water & Process Solutions. "Three solutions we believe will be increasingly deployed include desalination, water reuse and decentralized systems-all of which can be enabled by low pressure membranes."

As a global leader in innovative water and process technologies, DW&PS represents the largest manufacturer of reverse osmosis and ion exchange products, as well as a leading innovator in the development of ultrafiltration and electrodeionization technologies. Through the development of membranes that require less energy, systems that operate at higher recovery factors, and implementation of high efficiency energy recovery devices, DW&PS has enabled lower-cost water desalination projects in communities across the globe.

This five-minute segment will educate viewers on the world's water crisis, and will highlight Dow Water & Process Solutions' efforts to improve the cost and performance of water purification technologies, for both industrial and safe drinking water applications worldwide. For more information, visit www.dowwatersolutions.com.

About Dow Water & Process Solutions

Dow Water & Process Solutions has a 50 year legacy of providing innovative water and process solutions to both communities and industries alike. A differentiated business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, Dow Water & Process Solutions offers a broad portfolio of ion exchange resins, reverse osmosis membranes, ultrafiltration membranes and electrodeionization products, with strong positions in a number of major application areas, including industrial and municipal water, industrial processes, pharmaceuticals, power, residential water and wastewater and water reuse. More information about Dow Water & Process Solutions can be found at www.dowwatersolutions.com.

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Karen Jayne Leinberger
The Dow Chemical Company
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