Clean Water
Nobody should walk hours to a dirty swamp or muddy river only to bring contaminated water home to their family. Clean water is life’s most basic need - Scott Harrison
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The Real Future of Clean Water
What would it take to ensure that everyone in the world had access to clean water? I’m prompted to ask this question in response to a recent New York Times Magazine article, which focused on Charity: Water, an organization that has reportedly raised $100 million to finance water projects in the developing world, making it the largest water-focused nonprofit in the United States.
Charity: Water has done an important job raising public awareness about the world’s water crisis and demonstrated remarkable fundraising ability — engaging both “micro-philanthropists” and wealthy entrepreneurs. The organization’s fundraising is guided by the imperative of giving its donors a satisfying experience.…
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The Power Of Purpose: How Charity: Water Is Reinventing Philanthropy With Data And Compassion
What I love about the work we’re doing at charity: water is that the cause of clean water brings together people of all walks of life. Regardless of your politics or your religious beliefs, we all believe that no human being should die from bad water. Nobody should walk hours to a dirty swamp or muddy river only to bring contaminated water home to their family. Clean water is life’s most basic need.
844 Million People Around the World Can't Access Clean Drinking Water
Clean, safe drinking water should be a basic human right, but unfortunately there are still massive segments of the global population that lack water and sanitation.
The power of sunlight can pull clean drinking water from thin air
Water. Its absence has ignited wars and leveled societies. It’s our most precious commodity and one that is growing increasingly scarce.
Water, Water, Everywhere—But Is It Clean?
The grim reality that unsafe water is responsible for more deaths around the world than war.
5 Nonprofits That Make Clean Water a Global Reality
Here are five nonprofits that are moving the needle on the issue, and whose campaigns are shedding light on the need for clean water around the world.
7 Water Organizations You Should Know
Clean water has become one of our most precious resources in the 21st century, in fact one in nine people live without access to clean and drinkable water.
Fighting the California Wildfires With Water Made From Air
An Israeli company brought a special emergency response vehicle that can pull water from the air to California to support the firefighters battling the flames.
Here's What You Can Do to Ensure Clean Water and Sanitation for All
It's easy to forget that having clean and accessible water is a luxury that many in the world do not have.
Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen's Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions
Using a process called vapor compression distillation, a single Slingshot can purify more than 250,000 liters of water per year, enough to satisfy the needs of about 300 people. And it can do so with any water source—sewage, seawater, chemical waste—no matter how dirty.
Scott Harrison Turned From Nightclub Promoter to Philanthropist
Many of his efforts have centered on trying to make giving to charity seem cool and fun. “So much of traditional charity is based on shame and guilt,” he says, citing commercials featuring children and animals in extreme need. “It’s as if Nike was telling people they were fat and lazy, so please buy our gear and go for a run.”
The Top Global Water Charities
Globally, 783 million people do not have access to clean water, and 2.5 billion people have no water-based sanitation resources such as toilets or clean bathing facilities. About 16 percent of the world’s rural population does not have access to safe drinking water supplies, as opposed to only four percent of the world’s urban population.
Where charity: water CEO Scott Harrison works to bring clean water to 24 countries
Harrison started charity: water eight years ago and has since extended its reach to twenty-four different countries, bringing clean water to about 5.2 million people in 16,000 villages. Harrison happily rattles off data on the organization’s successes, but always couches it in the daunting context. "Every day charity: water helps over 2000 people get access to clean water for the first time." Without missing a beat he added, "But there are 750 million people worldwide who don’t have something that many of us take for granted every single day."
The Real Future of Clean Water
What would it take to ensure that everyone in the world had access to clean water? I’m prompted to ask this question in response to a recent New York Times Magazine article, which focused on Charity: Water, an organization that has reportedly raised $100 million to finance water projects in the developing world, making it the largest water-focused nonprofit in the United States.
Charity: Water
charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.
Drop in the Bucket
OUR MISSION is to build wells and sanitation systems at schools throughout sub-Saharan Africa, enabling youth to fully harness the life-changing power of an education.
Generosity.org
Join us in ending the clean water crisis, advancing education and supporting families one community at a time.
Miya
Miya focuses on reducing Non-Revenue Water (NRW), fresh water that is lost from the distribution system before it reaches consumers. Most municipal water infrastructures are antiquated and not well maintained, resulting in the daily loss of millions of cubic meters of clean water. Miya’s approach takes into consideration the needs, budget and goals of a particular city to design the most appropriate NRW reduction strategy - GoodNet.org
One Drop
ONE DROP—an initiative of Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil—strives to ensure that water is accessible to all, today and forever.
Pure Water for the World
We envision a world in which all people have safe water, proper sanitation and the knowledge to sustain it for future generations.
The Water Project
The Water Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization unlocking human potential by providing reliable water projects to communities in sub-Saharan Africa who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation.
Vox
We’re a small non-profit company that does big things. We work with government leaders to provide sustainable, clean drinking water to people in poverty-stricken communities. Over the past 8 years we’ve executed projects in Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique. Today, 1 million people benefit from our clean water initiatives.
Water for Good
Tackling water poverty in one of the world’s most forgotten countries. Our goal? Clean, lasting water for every man, woman, and child in the Central African Republic.
Water is Life
Providing short and long term clean water, sanitation and hygiene solutions around our world. Saving Lives. Transforming Communities.
Water.org
We are here to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans. There is both a need and demand for these loans, because when people have access to safe water, they get time back to go to school, earn an income and take care of their family. It changes their world.
Blood:Water
Blood:Water is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 to address the HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa. We come alongside partners in Africa to equip them to address the vital link between living with HIV/AIDS and the need for clean water through holistic HIV/AIDS care clinics and groups and through sustainable water projects.
Charity startup: Scott Harrison's mission to solve Africa's water problem
There are many successful water charities working in the developing world. But it is the way that charity:water has gone about fundraising that makes it notable -- and that has attracted active and enthusiastic support from the tech world's leading founders, from Spotify's Daniel Ek to Square's Jack Dorsey. The organisation uses social networks and digital tools, such as real-time video and GPS mapping, to provide its donors with a level of transparency that many other charities shy away from.
Columbia Water Center
Our mission is to creatively tackle water challenges of a rapidly changing world where water and climate interact with food, energy, ecosystems and urbanization.
Development Media International
Development Media International (DMI) runs television and radio campaigns in developing regions to raise awareness for important health and wellness issues. The focus areas of DMI’s educational media for vulnerable communities are nutrition, hygiene and sanitation, malaria prevention, HIV/AIDS, family planning, and child marriage.
Evidence Action
Dispensers for Safe Water is a sustainable rural water service that maintains chlorine dispensers directly at the water source, ensuring access to safe drinking water for nearly 5 million people in rural Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi.
PSI
We work to improve the health of low-income families in the developing world by increasing access to and use of WASH products and services, such as household water treatments, toilets and soap.
PureMadi
PureMadi works at the intersection of water, societal, and human health disciplines. Our work is based in the Venda region of Limpopo Province, South Africa. “Madi” is the Tshivenda word for water. Our current focus is on the design, testing, and dissemination of ceramic technologies for point-of-use (e.g. household) water treatment.
Three Avocados
Three Avocados is a non-profit coffee company. 100% of our net proceeds provide clean drinking water throughout the world. Our coffee is grown in Uganda and Nicaragua, by small farmers. We pay fair prices for high quality coffee to deliver you an amazing cup of coffee that also provides amazing benefits for the countries where the coffee is grown.
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