Water management technology company Ecolab, Inc. in St. Paul, Minnesota, has announced a three-year, $2 million grant to the Nature Conservancy in support of TNC's Securing and Restoring Water Sources Around the Globe initiative.

Awarded through the Ecolab Foundation, the grant will support the environmental organization’s land and water conservation activities in Minnesota; strategies to protect water resources in Shanghai, where more than twenty-four million people depend on the Yangtze River for their water needs; and reforestation and other water conservation efforts in Monterrey, Mexico. The grant is part of Ecolab's newly launched Solutions for Life program, which is designed to expand the company’s efforts to conserve water and improve hygiene around the world through new partnerships, philanthropy, and employee voluntarism.

"Over the past twenty-five years, funding from the Ecolab Foundation has helped advance our efforts to conserve and restore sources of clean water in Minnesota," said Peggy Ladner, state director for the Nature Conservancy. "Now, with this support, the largest single corporate contribution we have received for our freshwater work in Minnesota, the Nature Conservancy can accelerate our efforts in the state and build on work under way in water-stressed urban areas in China and Mexico."