What began as a customer contest turned into a touching event for Colorado-based company, Industrial Specialties Mfg. (ISM). The company supplies fittings, filters and flow control products.

Customers of ISM were invited to submit a photo and description of how they used ISM products. One of the many entries was from Healing Waters International, also based in Colorado. ISM supplies fittings, filters and flow control products to customers all over the world.

The photo submitted by Healing Waters International included a young man smiling next to a water filtration system.

The description received read:

“Healing Waters uses ISM strainers, orifices, and fittings in our water treatment systems to purify drinking water in developing countries. This helps provide safe drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people around the world without access to safe water. ISM parts are reliable and robust even in adverse conditions.”

ISM quickly took interest in the contest submission.

“We found that one of our customers was using our products in systems that ultimately provide safe drinking water in developing countries,” said James Davis, ISM president.

ISM’s contest review panel was impressed by the story and voted Healing Waters International as the contest winner. As such, Healing Waters received an iPad mini,a  Amazon gift card and a donation of an array of ISM components to service Healing Waters International for the remainder of the 2014 year.

The company said it wanted to share their story to encourage and inspire other businesses to donate products, services or funds to worthwhile causes when possible.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give,” the company quoted from Winston Churchill.