John R. Gibb to Join PureSafe Board of Directors

PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PURESAFE WATER SYSTEMS, INC. (OTCBB: PSWS) is pleased to announce the appointment of John Gibb to its Board of Directors.  PureSafe has developed the First Response Water System (FRWS), a mobile water treatment system that is capable of being deployed to communities and businesses in times of natural disasters or other water crises and producing 30,000 gallons of clean potable water a day to sustain lives.

John Gibb is recently retired after 30 years of emergency management and homeland security service in New York State.  He was appointed Acting Commissioner of the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services at its creation in July 2010.  Prior to leading the new Division he was the Director of the NYS Emergency Management Office (SEMO) beginning in December 2005.  Mr. Gibb also headed the State Weapons of Mass Destruction Task Force from 2001 until 2005 where he was responsible for administering more than $800 million in U.S. Department of Homeland Security Grant programs for the State of New York.  He was State Coordinating Officer for eleven federally declared disasters and has extensive experience in emergency response, local emergency preparedness, emergency planning, radiological emergency preparedness and emergency worker training.

Mr. Gibb has extensive disaster planning experience and is very familiar with local, state, regional and federal disaster plans and how they are resourced.  This experience will allow him to offer strategic assistance in focusing PureSafe products toward those agencies and entities that will be most likely to be interested in procurement of our First Response Water System.

During his tenure as Director of SEMO, he was an active member of the National Emergency Management Association where he served as Regional VP and Secretary of the national organization.  John has excellent emergency management contacts around the country and looks forward to assisting PureSafe with its strategic planning initiatives.

PureSafe CEO Leslie Kessler stated, "We are very fortunate that John Gibb has agreed to join our Board just as our First Response Water System has been sold to the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.  John uniquely combines the practical experience of having served as an emergency responder with a sterling reputation as one of the most trusted and authoritative voices on homeland security."

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Contact:
PureSafe Water Systems, Inc.
Leslie J. Kessler,  516.208.8250
Fax:                       516.208.8252
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www.puresafewatersystems.com

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