LIFESTRAW STORY
At LifeStraw, we believe everyone deserves equitable access to safe drinking water. We design beautiful, simple, and functional products that provide the highest protection from unsafe water based on where and how they will be used. We also take our responsibility to people and planet seriously. For every product sold, a child in need receives access to safe water for an entire year. We have been partners in the fight for the eradication of Guinea worm for 25 years, and we actively respond to emergencies across the globe. We are Climate Neutral Certified B Corp and from product to packaging, we measure and minimize our environmental impact. We strive to support underrepresented communities through our actions, our products, our marketing and our communications. We live, work and create with impact in mind. We fight for good and always err on the side of action.
WHY LIFESTRAW DIFFERENT
IMPACT
LifeStraw is in business to bring safe drinking water to those who need it most. We are a humanitarian company that gives back. We also commit to ensuring that respect, diversity, and inclusion is a conscious part of all of our work.
RESPONSIBILITY
To responsibly impact people and planet, we strive to develop products that reduce waste and we recognize our obligation to measuring our footprint and minimizing our environmental impact.
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
We innovate technology powerful enough to prevent some of the most harmful diseases and emerging contaminants in the world and we back it with the most rigorous testing in the business.
BEAUTIFUL DESIGN
We use simple, Danish design that ensures our products are beautiful, functional, and sustainable.
LIFESTRAW HISTORY
2022
After 17 years, LifeStraw redesigns the iconic LifeStraw and introduces the Peak Series, the ultimate in water filtration.
2021
LifeStraw becomes a certified B Corporation, responds to disasters in 23 countries, reaching over 500k people with safe water.
2020
Vestergaard and LifeStraw grow into two companies connected by the same humanitarian entrepreneurship DNA. LifeStraw becomes a Climate Neutral Certified company by measuring and offsetting all carbon emissions.
2019
LifeStraw® Home, a water filter pitcher that addresses serious water quality issues in well-resourced nations is introduced. Is first LifeStraw product to enter home, lifestyle market.
2018
At the end of the year, the LifeStraw® Give Back program reaches over two million children.
2017
Vestergaard supports construction of a maternity ward at the Emusanda Health Center to provide high quality maternal and child health care to the community. LifeStraw® Play for Kids, LifeStraw® Universal and LifeStraw Flex® lead LifeStraw’s entry into the mainstream consumer athleisure market.
2016
Vestergaard LifeStraw launches the independently run non-profit LifeStraw® Safe Water Fund to bring drinking water to those affected byvictims following natural disasters and communities school children in need of safe watervulnerable communities globally.
2015
Beginning this year and in all subsequent years, 100% of all LifeStraw® Guinea worm filters provided to The Carter Center are donated. To date, LifeStraw has provided more than 39 million Guinea worm filters to support disease eradication efforts.
2014
LifeStraw launches a Give Back program through which, for every LifeStraw® purchased at retail, a school child in need receives safe water for an entire school year.
2013
LifeStraw® Go, a refillable water bottle incorporating LifeStraw® technology, is introduced as the first LifeStraw product targeting the outdoor consumer market in developed countries.
2012
LifeStraw® Family 2.0 with a built-in safe storage container and the high-volume LifeStraw® Community water purifiers are introduced.
2011
The LifeStraw® Carbon for Water campaign uses carbon financing to provide 4 million people in Kenya with sustainable access to safe drinking water.
2009
Vestergaard, (LifeStraw’s parent company) builds and finances the Emusanda Health Center to ensure that every person tested in the CarePack® campaign has access to health services, including HIV/AIDS treatment.
2008
The LifeStraw® Family water purifier is introduced for in-house use in developing countries. Vestergaard conceives of and leads the pilot of an integrated prevention campaign, called CarePack®, in Kenya. It bundles health tools given away as an incentive for mass HIV testing.
2005
The award-winning portable LifeStraw® personal is introduced for humanitarian purposes. water filter evolves from the Guinea worm filter. It transforms dirty water into safe drinking water by removing bacteria and parasites from drinking water.
1999
Vestergaard creates a plastic pipe filter to strain out Guinea worm larva (and prevent Guinea worm disease) for The Carter Center.
