RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 19, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- HydroFlo, Inc. (OTCBB:HYRF) announced today that it has been invited to profile the Company's arsenic removal and wastewater treatment technologies on EcoWatch, a major environmental television series produced by United Media Communications Group (UMCG) and utilizing the knowledge, expertise and scientific resources of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
A production team is scheduled to tape footage about HydroFlo's technology in North Carolina this fall. The two-minute program will cite HydroFlo as a leader in meeting rising consumer demand for compliance with the EPA and UN requirements for removing arsenic in drinking water as well as conducting pretreatment of wastewater in the pipeline systems without the use of chemicals. Removal of arsenic is a concern grabbing today's news headlines. HydroFlo provides proprietary and unique methods with accuracy that surpasses every other known technology on the market today.
Dennis L. Mast, CEO of HydroFlo, said, "The two highly sought after technologies that Hydro-Flo brings to the market reduce the need for chemicals in wastewater treatment, conserve energy, and reduce contamination in drinking water. This technology has been proven both in the lab and in the field and provides a valuable service to the public in the form of safer, better quality water."
Across the United States, 55 million households receive The National Geographic Channel, and 45 million receive the Outdoor Life Network. EcoWatch airs at strategic times during prime and peak time on these networks and also regionally on CNN, FoxNEWS, and other major cable news stations. EcoWatch is syndicated to over 50 independent stations and airs internationally on WorldNet, on stations in at least 200 cities in 127 other countries. Programmers at U.S. and foreign stations choose features called "interstitial programming" to fill airtime when gaps occur between regular broadcasts.
"The program is scheduled to air this winter and will also be available online at www.hydroflo.us for at least a year. Typically, an EcoWatch program will air over twenty times throughout our distribution chain," said John McGuire of UMCG.
Mr. McGuire said that once UMCG learned of HydroFlo, inviting the firm to participate was an easy decision.
"We were knocked out when we saw the web site. Our programs must have visually compelling entertainment value, and we thought a HydroFlo location shoot with phenomenal backdrops would fit our model perfectly. What impressed us initially was the hard science behind the technology," said Mr. McGuire.
United Media Communications Group (UMCG) of Boca Raton, Florida, produces and distributes educational television programming for a worldwide audience. The award-winning staff of UMCG has produced thousands of hours of business, environment, parenting and health programming that has reached tens of millions of television households in the United States and abroad. Under an agreement with UMCG, the United Nations Environment Programme provides story ideas and content for the new "EcoWatch" series, which seeks to expose good news about environmental solutions to today's most challenging problems. These solutions come from the private sector as well as other organizations.
"We are certainly honored to have been selected by EcoWatch to tell our story on this international scale, especially since we are a smaller company. The exposure will be terrific, and the production quality of their programs is excellent. Anything that is associated with the United Nations Environment Programme, as this show is, can only be good for us," added Mr. Mast.
About the Company
HydroFlo, Inc. (http://www.hydroflo.us) is a Business Development Company, as defined by the Investment Act of 1940. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, HydroFlo's core focus is to seek out synergistic acquisitions that will provide capital appreciation and income from its portfolio companies. Its first portfolio investment company, HydroFlo Water Treatment, Inc. (http://www.hydroflo-inc.com) is in the business of providing aeration equipment used for the pre-treatment of wastewater. Using the patented Pressure Line Up-Stream or PLUS pre-treatment system, HydroFlo Water Treatment provides customers a treatment process at their pumping stations, prior to the wastewater reaching a treatment plant. Its most recent investment company, Arsenic Removal Technologies, Inc., is in the business of providing methods and services for the removal of arsenic from drinking water to meet the current EPA requirements of less than 10 parts per billion by January 2006.
Statements regarding financial matters in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company intends that such statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. Since these statements (future operational results and sales) involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, the Company's actual results may differ materially from expected results.