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September 9, 2005

IBWA PROMOTES STAFF MEMBER TO VICE PRESIDENT

(ALEXANDRIA, VA) —The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is pleased to announce that Robert Hirst has been promoted to Vice President, Education, Science, and Technical Relations. “Bob is smart, conscientious, diligent, hard working and is well liked by both staff and members. I am certain that Bob will perform his new duties with the same skill and enthusiasm that he has demonstrated during the past seven years at IBWA,” remarked Doss.

Mr. Hirst’s primary responsibilities at IBWA for the past seven years have included technical and regulatory education, food safety and security, technical services, and management of IBWA’s HACCP and GMP-based plant inspection program. Prior to coming to IBWA in 1998, Mr. Hirst was the Laboratory and Water Resources Director at AquaPenn Spring Water Company, based in Pennsylvania with plants also in Florida and California. He has 30 years of experience in both government and industry in water resource development and management, public water system and bottled water regulation, food safety and security, water quality monitoring, standards development, quality assurance, and laboratory analysis.

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